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'Blindsided' Alito sat 'stone-faced' with anger after Sotomayor exchange
The Court That Sanitizes Border ViolenceThe SceneAt the Supreme Court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor used a dissent to spell out what the majority tried to soften into procedure: denying asylum seekers entry at the border has consequences, and those consequences include death. Justice Samuel Alito, after reading the ruling, reacted as if the problem was her tone, not the policy. That is the small theater on the surface. The larger story is that the Court helped normalize state violence by disguising it as a dispute over language.Who Holds PowerThe real institutional power here is not the two…
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