Article snippet: Justice MORE on Wednesday took issue with the Trump administration's tendency to turn to the Supreme Court for relief from lower court injunctions. Sotomayor and fellow liberal Justice MORE were the lone two judges who dissented in the issuing of the stay of a nationwide injunction of a Trump administration rule that would drastically cut down on the number of people who could seek asylum in the U.S. The Supreme Court on Wednesday approved President Trump's request to allow the administration to fully enforce the rule. "Unfortunately, it appears the Government has treated this exceptional mechanism as a new normal," Sotomayor wrote in her dissenting opinion. "Historically, the Government has made this kind of request rarely; now it does so reflexively." Sotomayor wrote that the court's ruling "sidesteps the ordinary judicial process to allow the Government to implement a rule that bypassed the ordinary rulemaking process." She raised further raised concerns that the asylum rule undoes decades of U.S. policy toward refugees. "Once again the Executive Branch has issued a rule that seeks to upend longstanding practices regarding refugees who seek shelter from persecution," she wrote. "Although this Nation has long kept its doors open to refugees—and although the stakes for asylum seekers could not be higher—the Government implemented its rule without first providing the public notice and inviting the public input generally required by law." The Supreme Court's rulin... Link to the full article to read more