Tension on the Bench: Justice Alito Is None Too Pleased With Sotomayor's Bitter Dissent on Asylum Case

Supreme Court Drama Between Justice Alito and Justice Sotomayor

Supreme Court Drama Between Justice Alito and Justice Sotomayor

Trumpy Justice, 76, Publicly Sneers at Liberal for Daring to Dissent

Pool/Getty ImagesConservative Justice Samuel Alito shocked Supreme Court observers on Thursday by lobbing a sneering dig at his liberal colleague, Justice Sonia Sotomayor.Alito, 76, shattered the court’s veneer of civility after Sotomayor, 72, read her blistering dissent in a 6-3 ruling that dealt a major blow to asylum seekers, holding that migrants waiting on the Mexican side of the southern border have not legally “arrived in the United States” and therefore are not entitled to statutory inspection and asylum-processing requirements.Sotomayor spent nearly 12 minutes “calmly” reading her dissent from the bench as her colleagues watched, MS NOW legal analyst Lisa Rubin said. Reading a dissent—the most pointed possible show of disapproval open to justices—is uncommon but falls squarely within the court’s norms.Read more at The Daily Beast.

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