Elena Kagan: “We are, as we have said many times before, ‘a court of review, not of first view.’”

If the idea is to reassure the markets, a simpler — and more judicial — approach would have been to deny the President’s application for a stay.

When political figures of any stripe are trying to intimidate judges and justices to do things that they like, rather than the things that they don’t, that’s where we really have crossed the line.

I think that we should hold ourselves, sort of on both sides, to a standard of explaining why we're doing what we're doing.

The references—of filth, disease, and primitiveness—are shot through with racial stereotypes and tropes.