Ketanji Brown Jackson: “The decision … gives the Executive the go-ahead to sometimes wield the kind of unchecked, arbitrary power the Founders…”

The consequences of allowing such transformative changes to take effect so close to this fall’s elections would be extreme.

This ruling violates well-established precedents concerning this Court’s equitable discretion and needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming midterm elections.

The harm caused by burdening or disenfranchising even a few lawful voters outweighs the nonexistent harm that the Government experiences when it is prevented from taking an action that it likely lacks the authority to take.

And the hardest part for judges is that we really cannot participate.