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Cruz Torches Sotomayor: ‘Like An Arsonist Complaining About The Noise From The Fire Trucks’

John Bickley
Cruz Torches Sotomayor: ‘Like An Arsonist Complaining About The Noise From The Fire Trucks’
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During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) compared left-leaning Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to an “arsonist” and turned her complaint against her fellow justices on its head.

On Friday night, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of the Trump administration’s request for an emergency stay on a lower court’s nationwide injunction against its “public charge” rule — which bans non-citizens from receiving a green card if the government believes those non-citizens would rely on public assistance — while the administration appeals the injunction.

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