Supreme Court justice deeply wounded that someone read the dissent to his ruling out loud
- Who
- Justice Samuel Alito
- What
- visible irritation at a dissent being read aloud
- When
- June 25, 2026
- Where
- the U.S. Supreme Court bench
The Court ruled 6–3 that the Trump administration may turn away asylum seekers before they reach U.S. soil, and separately cleared it to end Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian nationals. Justice Sonia Sotomayor read her dissent from the bench, calling the majority’s reading “egregiously wrong” and warning that “more people will die.” Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the majority opinion, responded: “There’s much that I would have added to my bench statement had I known there would be a dissent read,” and called the asylum policy “orderly and humane.”
Of everything in that room to be troubled by, the Justice selected the audio. The objection is not that the dissent was wrong but that it was spoken — that nobody warned him a colleague would say her own words near him. Our analysts admire the prioritization: the policy is “orderly and humane,” and the true breach of order was that someone described its consequences at volume.
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