Alito appears testy during Sotomayor’s asylum dissent reading from the bench

Justice Samuel Alito responded tersely to Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday morning after the liberal justice read her blistering dissent to his majority opinion in a case on asylum seekers.

The court’s 6-3 ruling along ideological lines opens the door for the Trump administration to turn around those seeking asylum in America before they reach U.S. soil.

Alito first briefly read the majority’s position.

As Sotomayor read her dissenting opinion from the bench, taking more time than her colleague, Alito leaned back in his chair and rocked back and forth, staring at the ceiling and at times appearing to close his eyes.

When Sotomayor criticized the majority opinion as “egregiously wrong,” Alito leaned forward in his chair, propped his chin in his hands and........

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