Sotomayor’s Blistering Travel Ban Dissent Leans on Cakeshop

Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent in the travel ban case railed against what she said was hypocrisy by the five justices who voted to uphold President Donald Trump’s executive order June 26.

The court’s conservative justices June 4 reversed a finding by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission because some of its members had shown hostility toward religion. But the same five justices turned a blind eye to Trump’s “hostility and animus toward the Muslim faith,” Sotomayor said, in an opinion joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsbrug.

There are some distinctions that give the majority some cover, Douglas Laycock, a religious ...