NPR reporting on Supreme Court mask controversy merits clarification
An inaccurate verb choice made the reporting unclear
On Tuesday morning, NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg reported that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch had declined to wear a mask in court even though he had been "asked," and as a result his colleague, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, was tuning in remotely.
On Wednesday, Chief Justice John Roberts issued a statement that was emailed to credentialed Supreme Court reporters denying that he had asked any justice to wear a mask. In response, Twitter flagged Totenberg's story as potentially false,, Totenberg her story.
