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NOW: The Supreme Court will let the Trump administration enforce, for now as litigation goes forward, a new policy effectively prohibiting asylum for thousands of people who cross through Mexico to the US. Here's the order: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6402… 
This is not a final ruling on the merits — it delays a lower court injunction that blocked the policy while the case moves up through the courts. Sotomayor wrote a dissent that Ginsburg joined: "I do not believe the Government has met its weighty burden for such relief"
One thing to note: It takes five votes to grant a stay like this. But we don't get a breakdown of that vote. So we know that at least five justices voted in favor of the stay, and we know Sotomayor and Ginsburg dissented, but we don't know for certain how anyone else voted
