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WASHINGTON<\/strong> | The Supreme Court is handing down major opinions at a rapid clip, but even with some of the biggest decisions yet to come there are signs of tension between the justices.<\/p>\n

One highly unusual exchange for the restrained and traditional atmosphere came Thursday, as the members of the nation\u2019s highest court took the bench as usual to read a short summary of their decisions. Those rulings included two major immigration wins for President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

After conservative Justice Samuel Alito finished his reading of the majority\u2019s ruling limiting how people can seek asylum at the southern border, liberal Sonia Sotomayor spoke up to read from her strident dissent.<\/p>\n

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She traced the difficult journey many asylum seekers face and outlined a painful chapter in the country\u2019s history: When the U.S. and other countries turned back a ship full of Jewish refugees attempting to flee persecution in Nazi Germany in 1939. About 250 of those passengers later died in the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

Sotomayor said the majority\u2019s opinion would allow the Trump administration to block people from applying for asylum at the border, which would result in more deaths. The decision \u201cregrettably and tragically extinguishes the light of the torch of the Statue of Liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Justice Brett Kavanaugh watched her intently as she spoke, while Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson looked straight ahead.<\/p>\n

Majority opinions are always read from the bench and dissenters can speak up as well to underscore their objections, which typically happens in few cases every term. More rulings are expected on Monday.<\/p>\n

Sotomayor\u2019s spoken dissent, however, appeared to be a surprise for Alito. In a very rare move, he spoke off the cuff. He sounded surprised and frustrated, saying he would have added more detail to his summary if he\u2019d known about plans to speak.<\/p>\n

For the conservative majority, the case was about whether border officials can delay asylum seekers\u2019 entry into the U.S. \u201cuntil they can be processed in a safe and orderly way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Out loud, Alito defended his opinion by noting that the policy at the center of the case had been used under both the Obama and Trump administrations. \u201cI won\u2019t add anything more to that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The exchange comes during the court\u2019s busiest time of the year, as the justices prepare to release opinions next week on some of the biggest issues of the term, and Trump\u2019s presidency so far. Those include his push to restrict birthright citizenship and expand the president\u2019s power to fire board members at independent agencies.<\/p>\n

Supreme Court justices have spoken publicly about their cordial working relationships and regular lunches as a group where they set aside cases to talk and share each other\u2019s company. And while there are ideological splits between the court\u2019s conservative majority and its liberal wing, they also decide many cases unanimously, including one this month about the Second Amendment rights of marijuana users.<\/p>\n

Still, it isn\u2019t the first time unusual tensions have surfaced this term. Sotomayor issued a rare public apology in April to another justice, Brett Kavanaugh, for what she termed \u201churtful comments.\u201d She had said during a law school talk that a colleague \u201cprobably doesn\u2019t really know any person who works by the hour.\u201d<\/p>\n

In another public appearance in March, Kavanaugh and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sparred over the many emergency orders the court had issued allowing Trump to move ahead with key parts of his agenda.<\/p>\n

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