Top-rated Fox News host Tucker Carlson waylayed Justice Brett Kavanaugh following his decision in one of two rulings this week regarding the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates, referring to him at one point as a “cringing little liberal.”

In particular, Carlson was upset at Kavanaugh for joining Chief Justice John Roberts and the high court’s three liberal justices in upholding President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for healthcare facilities that accept federal Medicare and Medicaid payments.

In a segment with Harmeet Dhillon of the Center for American Liberties, Carlson chimed in after she called the ruling “unfortunate…given the massive shortage that we have of healthcare workers right now in our hospitals.”

“With no help from Brett Kavanaugh, I notice. Cringing little liberal,” Carlson quipped before adding that he wouldn’t have Dhillon comment on his remark before asking whether democracy still exists in the U.S.

Other conservatives took to social media to express their angst over the supposedly ‘conservative’ high court’s ruling regarding their decision to leave the healthcare worker mandate in place.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, among the staunchest Republican critics of Biden’s mandates, also blasted Kavanaugh and Roberts during an appearance on the “Ruthless” podcast on Friday.

“On the nurse mandate and the doctor mandate, Roberts and Kavanaugh joined with the liberals to allow the nurse mandate,” DeSantis said. “Now, in Florida, we protected the nurses, so we have people that are working. But in other states, they fired nurses who were not vaccinated.”

He added that some healthcare facilities and hospitals are now so short-staffed they are allowing vaccinated, but COVID-positive, staff to continue working.

“So, they have COVID-positive people back on. Meanwhile, the unvaccinated, likely immune through prior infection, healthy nurses are on the sidelines fired,” he said. “How insane are these policies?”

He added: “Roberts and Kavanaugh did not have a backbone on that decision. That’s just the bottom line.”