Sonia Sotomayor: “To promote the civil rights and equal opportunity of Hispanics in the United States.”

From the moment he was released from custody after serving his first term of imprisonment, Herrera-Salazar was presented with a Hobson's choice,

Congress passed the Refugee Act in 1980 because it did not want this country to repeat the mistakes of its past.

If we're unsure of your characterization, because there's certainly a number of amici brief who disagree with that characterization, shouldn't we be certifying this question to the Colorado court instead of us deciding it? We have to be…

In the end, to the Court, the facts do not matter, even though the consequences are serious.