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'People will die': Justice pens dire dissent as Supreme Court backs Trump on asylum
The Court Didn’t Interpret the Border. It Authorized a Locked Door.Power, Not ProcedureThe Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative majority did not merely side with the Trump administration. It translated executive hostility into legal permission. That is the real power in this story: a Court willing to treat people fleeing persecution as a problem of border administration rather than a matter of law, duty, and human survival.Sotomayor’s dissent lays out the stakes plainly. The majority blessed a policy that keeps noncitizens from being inspected and allowed to apply for asylum, even as Congress…
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