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Posted on 06/27/2026 2:54:42 AM PDT by dennisw
The Supreme Court issued a rare public statement Friday after two Justices got into an unusually explosive argument.
Conservative Justice Samuel Alito had a terse exchange with his colleague, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, following the release of a highly anticipated immigration decision - a rare win for Donald Trump - on Thursday.
The exchange came after Alito delivered the majority opinion in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, which granted Trump a key 6-3 victory allowing federal immigration officers to turn away asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border.
Sotomayor took the rare step of reading her dissent from the bench. The practice, while somewhat uncommon, is certainly not unheard of - and justices are made aware of such plans beforehand.
This was the case when Sotomayor, who was appointed by Barack Obama, read aloud her sharply worded, 35-page dissent during Thursday's release of opinions.
But her 10-minute diatribe appeared to catch Alito off guard.
'There’s much that I would have added to my bench statement had I known there would be a dissent read,' Alito said tersely.
Seeking to calm the waters more than 24 hours after his remarks made national news, the Court was forced to issue a statement, calling it a 'misunderstanding.'
It's now fueling speculation about rising underlying tensions among the justices.
‘The Court today holds that the Executive Branch may circumvent all these mandatory procedures by having US immigration officers stand at the border and physically block noncitizens from setting a foot onto U.S. soil,’ Sotomayor said in her dissent.
‘They may do so even if the asylum seeker is at the threshold of a port of entry designated to receive all noncitizens who seek entrance into the country,' Sotomayor continued.
'Even if the port of entry has ample capacity to inspect that person, including an available asylum officer trained to process asylum applications. Even if the asylum seeker is certain to be persecuted, or killed, if she is turned away.’
It's not the first time the Supreme Court justices have made headlines for breaking, even slightly, with a time-honored sense of decorum.
Sotomayor issued an apology earlier this year for what she described as 'hurtful' public comments about her colleague, conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
'At a recent appearance at the University of Kansas School of Law, I referred to a disagreement with one of my colleagues in a prior case, but I made remarks that were inappropriate,' Sotomayor said in a statement earlier this year.
'I regret my hurtful comments. I have apologized to my colleague.'
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SCOTUS needs to put in a max. width regulation on its internal road widths.
No more overly wide Latina allowed to run amok.
Ever Ketanji Brown slid in, Sotomayor is no longer the DEI Queen, no longer the stupidest.
Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson...where she got her pretend African names?
Straw man argument that has little relevance to the original case.
Deport the wide Latina on general principles....
Sotomayor - need we say more
A rare Trump Win.
Seems to me he has been winning a lot.
But if the commies think America is so horrible, then America is actually doing those asylum seekers a favor by not letting them be deceived and let in to such an awful country to seek asylum. Right, Ms. Wise Latinx?
I hope Trump gets to replace the Wide Latina soon.
Constitutional originalists had to suck it up, and did so quietly, over the 40+ years of Leftist domination of the Scotus.
RBG began the whimpering habit of democrat judges reading dissents.
We now have actual constitutionalists on the court and the emotional chicks can’t stand it.
Tough.
Get used to it.
Her parents “immigrated” from Puerto Rico to the Bronx NYC.
Absolute bull$hit. As it has been said: Lying weasels in the Media, you can't hate them enough.
People, both male and female, become embittered after repeated exposures to instances of forced averted expectations. I saw this in the armed forces over the my +53 years as active duty and contractor.
Too many times the bottled up disappointments are left unresolved and they amass into an incendiary threat that eventually causes an incident where removal is required.
Was going on well before that.
My Nigerian and Kenyan co-workers would see names like that and laugh.
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Rare? The SCOTUS is the one place where Trump has secured one win after another. Lord know the Congress and Sinators have done bupkis.
She apologized about her hurtful comments about Kavanaugh, yet she keeps doing hurtful things. Hard ti believe she meant her apology
“.....a. rare win for Donald Trump”. Uh, really? He seems to win fairly often at the USSC.
Rare win?
I think you mean Wide Latinx.
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