Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent to SCOTUS’ latest ruling allowing racial profiling to detain migrants earned her a standing ovation from Stephen Colbert’s Late Show audience on Tuesday night.

The 6-3 decision overturned a lower court ruling that blocked ICE from racially profiling Latinos. Colbert shared Sotomayor’s dissent aloud during her appearance on the show.

“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job,” Colbert read aloud. “Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”

The audience clapped and then jumped to their feet in support of the scathing remarks.

Sotomayor told Colbert earlier in the show that Donald Trump’s power grabs through

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