You are correct. I did overstate the case. It was unnamed sources and one law clerk.
Still, the ball is in NPR’s court to prove what they said, as unnamed supreme court sources and one law clerk beats:
"Totenberg cited “court sources” to report Sotomayor herself expressed she “did not feel safe in close proximity to people who were unmasked” before Roberts made the decision. "
Let me get this right. Three-of-a-kind beats two-pair; a flush beats a straight; and an “unnamed court source and one law clerk” beats “cited court sources”?
I had the clerks name confused with Bream, a legal reporter. Didn’t bother to check it because it is no longer important. Roberts, Gorsuch and Sotomayer have all chimed in since then to say NPR was wrong.
Dumb, yes. But it pushed that narrative that those evil Republicans will not do the littlest thing like wear a mask, so those poor, poor vaccinated libs have to take drastic measures to protect themselves.