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