Devise\Support\Sortable\Sortable::newQuery PHP Method

    public function newQuery($excludeDeleted = true)
    {
        $builder = new EloquentBuilder($this->newBaseQueryBuilder());
        // Once we have the query builders, we will set the model instances so the
        // builder can easily access any information it may need from the model
        // while it is constructing and executing various queries against it.
        $builder->setModel($this)->with($this->with);
        $traits = class_uses($this);
        if ($excludeDeleted && in_array('Illuminate\\Database\\Eloquent\\SoftDeletes', $traits) && method_exists($this, 'getQualifiedDeletedAtColumn')) {
            $builder->whereNull($this->getQualifiedDeletedAtColumn());
        }
        return $builder;
    }