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A decision by Justice Sonia Sotomayor to take 12 minutes of the court’s time on Thursday to read her dissent in a 6-3 ruling that makes it significantly harder for asylum seekers who traveled through Mexico and South America to enter the US provoked Justice Sam Alito to take an unseemly potshot at her, which stunned court regulars.

According to MS NOW legal analyst Lisa Rubin, arch-conservative Alito sat and listened to a very “calm” Sotomayor read her dissent, with Rubin pointing out, “That is certainly not unusual.”

A bitter clash among Supreme Court justices came into view Thursday through a pair of immigration rulings, in which Justice Samuel Alito accused his liberal colleagues of blindsiding him.

The friction emerged when Alito announced the court's decision in an asylum case, adopting a narrow interpretation of what it means for a migrant to have "arrived" in the United States under federal law — a reading that makes it significantly harder for asylum seekers who traveled through Mexico and South America to qualify unless they physically set foot on U.S. soil, reported CNN's Joan Biskupic.

Appearing on MS NOW just as the Supreme Court handed down a ruling that allows Donald Trump to immediately deport immigrants from Haiti and Syria who have been granted temporary protected status (TPS), ex-U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance was appalled.

Writing for the 6-3 majority, conservative Justice Samuel Alito asserted that lower courts cannot stop the federal government's determination about TPS status, opening the door for a mass purge of immigrants desired by the president and White House adviser Stephen Miller.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared to be caught off guard by a reporter asking why President Donald Trump's son-in-law tagged along to a high-level meeting with foreign officials.

Michael Boulos, the husband of Tiffany Trump, sat beside the secretary of state during a meeting on Wednesday with UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, and Rubio stammered when asked Thursday in Kuwait about the president's family member's presence.

CNN's Harry Enten shrieked in mock terror at President Donald Trump's abrupt about-face on signing a bipartisan affordable-housing bill to knuckle down on his bill to impose new restrictions on voting.

The 80-year-old president caught lawmakers and staffers off guard by announcing just over an hour before the signing ceremony that he would not add his signature to the law until Congress passed his SAVE America Act, and the chief data analyst told "CNN News Central" that Republicans are likely horrified.

Jimmy Fallon shredded President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair on Wednesday night, mocking the White House's claim that the 16-day National Mall event was a nonpartisan celebration by noting it bore an uncanny resemblance to a Trump rally.

The "Tonight Show" host opened his monologue by needling Trump for headlining the opening ceremony himself after several musical acts dropped out. NBC News reported that Young MC, Martina McBride, The Commodores, Morris Day and the Time, and Poison frontman Bret Michaels all backed out, citing concerns about the political nature of an event backed by the Trump White House.

Donald Trump’s “Great American State Fair” being held on the Mall in Washington, DC, is off to a ragged start with supporters of the president walking out on him as he was still speaking at an opening rally Wednesday night.

As NBC News reported, hours after the president got into a shouting match with Republicans in a closed-door meeting, he attended the opening ceremonies and told fans, “As you know very well, a short time ago we were a dead country. We were dead. Now we’re the hottest country anywhere in the world. We’re respected by everybody. Nobody’s laughing at us anymore.”

CNN's Audie Cornish busted a former Donald Trump official's chops for arguing that most elected leaders tend to moderate once they gain power, despite the obvious counterexample of the president he once served.

Panelists on "CNN This Morning" were discussing this week's primary election wins by left-leaning Democrats and what that means for Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez's (D-NY) political future, and former White House communications director Mike Dubke suggested that she would likely move toward the center to govern if she ran for higher office.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy used a Wednesday night warm-up speech for President Donald Trump on the National Mall to brand musicians who pulled out of the Great American State Fair as "libtards," drawing cheers from the partisan crowd.

Duffy opened his remarks by saluting the Marine Band and a trio of performers: Lee Greenwood, Christopher Macchio, and Alexis Wilkins, the country singer and girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel, according to The Daily Beast.

Republicans heading into November have a problem they can't say out loud: they're terrified of being seen anywhere near Donald Trump.

That was the blunt read on Wednesday from John Heilemann, national affairs analyst for NBC News and MS NOW, on Nicolle Wallace's show, "Deadline: White House," where he argued the only thing that halts a slide toward authoritarianism is the ballot box.