On Tuesday, CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert became the latest stop on Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s book tour, but the eponymous host got more than he bargained for when his straw man portrayal of a recent decision involving ICE was so bad, even the dissenting liberal justice had to correct him on it.
In his monologue, after talking about President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, Colbert previewed his interview with Sotomayor, “Trump’s friends aren’t all dead pedophiles. He also has six close pals on the Supreme Court. And yesterday they were at it again. In a courageously unsigned order, the Court is letting ICE agents target people for deportation based on their race or language. What the hell? Wait, are they saying, wait, they can arrest you for speaking Spanish? That's going to ruin karaoke night.”
He added, “My guest tonight, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Court's first Hispanic member, issued a blistering dissent, writing the administration has, quote, ‘all but declared that all Latinos, U.S. citizens or not, are fair game to be seized at any time.’ Yes, any Latino could be deported at any moment.”
