On Tuesday, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor made an appearance on CBS Mornings to promote the release of her new children’s book, Just Shine!: How to Be a Better You. The anchors for CBS found it appropriate to repeatedly badger a Supreme Court Justice with off-topic questions concerning Monday’s ruling on illegal-immigration ICE raids in California and for her thoughts about America’s future.
Co-anchor Tony Dokoupil briefly acknowledged the intended purpose of Sotomayor’s presence on the morning program, but rushed towards her recent dissent:
DOKOUPIL: I want to get to the beautiful ideas in this book. It’s a tribute to your mother. It's about seeing others, helping them be their best. But I think a lot of our viewers are going to be wondering about this case yesterday, about enforcement actions in Los Angeles. You say it opens the door to what amounts to racial profiling. Your colleague, Justice Kavanaugh, says it’s just common sense to look in the areas where immigration violations are most likely. What he says is common sense, you say is unconstitutional. Help us understand that.
SOTOMAYOR: I can't and I won't. It's a pending case right now. And as a result, I don't talk about pending cases for the Supreme Court. We’ve decided this one issue but the case is going back down. There will be further proceedings in the court below. And so, you have to rely on the public reading, what we write.
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