The highly unusual exchange between Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Sonia Sotomayor over a dissent read from the bench was based on a “misunderstanding” by the conservative justice, the Supreme Court said Friday.

Alito bit back after Sotomayor criticized his opinion giving the Trump administration more power to turn back asylum-seekers at the southern border.

Justice Samuel Alito gave a terse response to Justice Sonia Sotomayor after she read her full dissent from the bench in a major asylum case ruling.