Overview

• The Supreme Court majority allowed the Trump administration, for now, to resume immigration-related stops in Southern California that drew protests and accusations of racial profiling.
• Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent criticized the ruling as “yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket.”
• Colbert read an excerpt in which Sotomayor wrote that the government should not seize people who look Latino or speak Spanish, prompting a standing ovation from the studio audience.
• Sotomayor urged viewers to read majority, concurring, and dissenting opinions to understand close cases rather than relying on immediate reactions.
• Sotomayor made the appeal during media appearances tied to a new children’s book, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett has been delivering a similar message while promoting her own book.