In a surprising interaction, woke late-night host Stephen Colbert clashed with progressive Justice Sonia Sotomayor on The Late Show during a segment intended to promote her book, amid discussion of the Supreme Court’s ruling that lifted Los Angeles-area restrictions on immigration stops.
For context, the far-left justice fact-checked Colbert when he falsely claimed the decision allows ICE to target enforcement based solely on race or language. Despite disagreeing with the decision, Sotomayor defended the court from these baseless allegations.
In any case, the interaction began with Colbert taking wild swings at the Trump administration. The so-called comedian said, “Trump’s friends aren’t all dead pedophiles. He also has six close pals on the Supreme Court.” Still not done with his biased monologue, he alleged, “The Court is letting ICE agents target people for deportation based on their race or language.”
Turning to his guest, the controversial late-night host continued his string og baseless claims. He stated, “Let’s talk about the decision yesterday. Yesterday, the Court ruled from that emergency docket that ICE can round up, in this case it was people of Hispanic heritage or who spoke Spanish in the case of Los Angeles and the California ICE arrests or detainments, but really anyone for any reason.”
Clearly uncomfortable with this characterization, Sotomayor disagreed. She said, “Now, let me stop you. In fairness to the majority, and by the way, I didn’t agree with them” Interupting, the irritating comedian said, “I’m not a lawyer, but I’m going to push back here because in this case they’re saying those are the circumstances, but isn’t the upshot of that if they are looking for reasonable suspicion, which is a much lower bar than probable cause.”
Continuing his mischaracterization, Colbert stated, “…they could make up new rationales for a different group of people who they feel are associated with some crime that has to be prevented.” Responding, Justice Sonia Sotomayor answered, “Well, no…Now, let me stop you.”
Adding to her defence after another interruption, she continued, “I didn’t agree with them. But they claimed there was more than those two factors: being Latino and speaking Spanish. I don’t think the third adds much to the equation, but they do. They say it’s because they are working in low-wage jobs.”
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After more whining from the so-called comedian, she stated, “Well, that’s what they said. Let’s not go any further. Okay. That’s what they said. And they’re working at jobs where illegal aliens typically work. That’s the claim.”
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Rounding out the bizarre segment, Colbert read out from Sotomayor’s official dissent, seemingly as a way to combat her arguments. The dissent noted, “That decision of the majority is yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket.”
Continuing the reading, he quoted, “We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work in a low-wage job here rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost.”
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