A day after Alito's testy response to Sotomayor's dissent, court says it was a 'misunderstanding'

During Supreme Court opinions, Justice Samuel Alito, who authored the majority opinion in an asylum case, appeared to directly address Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent from the bench. The exchange was highly unusual—justices rarely rebut one another during public opinion readings. But the court later offered a clarification: according to NPR News, the justices said the moment was simply a misunderstanding, raising new questions about dynamics at the nation's highest court.

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