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'Gasps' heard at Supreme Court as Alito takes personal shot at Justice Sotomayor
The Court Drops the Mask on Asylum CrueltyPower, Not PolitenessThe important fact here is not that two justices had a tense exchange. It is that the Court used its institutional power to make life harder for asylum seekers who traveled through Mexico and South America, and Sam Alito wrote the majority opinion doing it. Sonia Sotomayor’s 12-minute dissent did not change the outcome. It only interrupted the ceremony of agreement the Court likes to perform.What HappenedIn a 6-3 ruling, the Court narrowed access for asylum seekers. Sotomayor read her dissent from the bench. Alito, according to…
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