Sotomayor and Gorsuch criticize immigration case as absurd

What each leads with

Daily Beast ↗ — Headline leads with “Trump Appointee Joins Liberal SCOTUS Colleague to Blast ‘Absurd’ Case”; Body excerpt opens by stressing Gorsuch joining Sotomayor’s statement on “serious constitutional problems” and “Hobson’s choice”

Washington Examiner ↗ — Headline and lede emphasize “Sotomayor and Gorsuch team up to rip ‘constitutional absurdity’ of immigration case”; Body details the two indictments while on supervised release and quotes the joint statement on double jeopardy


Trump Appointee Joins Liberal SCOTUS Colleague to Blast ‘Absurd’ Case

Left: Daily Beast

S. despite being ordered to remain in the country while he was on probation. Sotomayor, an appointee of Barack Obama, wrote that the government’s treatment…

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Sotomayor and Gorsuch team up to rip ‘constitutional absurdity’ of immigration case

Right: Washington Examiner

Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch teamed up on Tuesday to criticize the “constitutional absurdity” of the prosecution of Jesus Herrera-Salazar, saying the Mexican national’s two arrests raise questions about double jeopardy. Sotomayor, a liberal, and Gorsuch, a conservative, released a joint statement with the high court’s decision not…

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