Supreme Court docket Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s newest damning dissent earned rapturous applause from “The Late Present” viewers on Tuesday.
Host Stephen Colbert learn a section of visitor Sotomayor’s objection to the conservative-majority courtroom’s ruling that allowed immigration agents to make use of racial profiling:
“We must always not need to reside in a rustic the place the federal government can seize anybody who appears to be like Latino, speaks Spanish and seems to work in a low-wage job. Relatively than stand idly by whereas our Constitutional freedoms are misplaced, I dissent.”
The viewers erupted in cheers.
The cameras then confirmed a standing ovation.
Because the applause continued, Colbert recommended to Sotomayor that he learn the entire dissent. “I really like Eugene Levy, however I’ll cancel him proper now if you wish to do this,” he joked. Actor and comic Levy was a later visitor on the present.
Sotomayor, nonetheless, simply urged folks to learn Supreme Court docket opinions for themselves. “Too many individuals hear what a Supreme Court docket resolution is and so they come to quick conclusions based mostly on what are solely their private emotions are,” she mentioned. “You shouldn’t do this. You need to learn the opinions.
“You’re going to be shocked, not on this one, however in others,” she predicted. “You’re going to learn the bulk opinion and also you’re going to step again and say, ‘You recognize they’ve made some actually good factors.’” And then you definitely learn the dissent and also you say, ‘They’re made some actually good factors.’ And also you understand that the questions are shut.”
