John Roberts: “Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights – to freely participate in our political community.”

The construction is a “likely infringement of the legislature’s power of the purse and authority to regulate federal property in the District of Columbia to continue”

Our role is not ‘to judge the wisdom, fairness, or logic’ of the law before us, but only to ensure that it does not violate the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Questions regarding the law’s policy are thus appropriately left to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process.

A vigorous and energetic Executive… for a feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.