Vaccine Mandate Foe to Argue Remotely After Testing Positive (3)

Justice Sonia Sotomayor won’t return to the courtroom with her colleagues on Friday for arguments over the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates for healthcare and other workers, while two of the attorneys arguing against the mandate will participate remotely to comply with the court’s Covid-19 protocols.

With coronavirus surging again in the capital, Sotomayor will participate remotely from her chambers, with her questions piped into the courtroom, a court spokeswoman said. The other justices are participating in-person. The court’s press office declined to say whether Sotomayor, who is a diabetic, had tested positive for Covid, though the fact that she’s in ...