Sonia Sotomayor...lol



Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday took issue with the Trump administration's tendency to turn to the Supreme Court for relief from lower court injunctions.

Sotomayor and fellow liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg were the lone two judges who dissented in the issuing of the stay of a nationwide injunction of a Trump administration rule that would drastically cut down on the number of people who could seek asylum in the U.S.

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday approved President Trump's request to allow the administration to fully enforce the rule.

"Unfortunately, it appears the Government has treated this exceptional mechanism as a new normal," Sotomayor wrote in her dissenting opinion. "Historically, the Government has made this kind of request rarely; now it does so reflexively."

Sotomayor wrote that the court's ruling "sidesteps the ordinary judicial process to allow the Government to implement a rule that bypassed the ordinary rulemaking process."

She raised further raised concerns that the asylum rule undoes decades of U.S. policy toward refugees.