At a recent Supreme Court sitting, Justice Samuel Alito took the unusual step of responding from the bench to Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s spoken dissent from an immigration-related opinion he wrote.
The June 25 incident took place in the final days of the current court’s session, as the justices try to issue opinions in remaining cases before the court’s summer recess, which typically begins before the Fourth of July.
Alito read aloud a summary of the majority opinion in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado. The 6-3 decision ruled that the government can turn away asylum-seekers at the border, clarifying a law that requires individuals to be inspected when they arrive in the United States….