Judges & Justices

No one doubts that the distribution of sexually explicit speech to children, of the sort involved here, can cause great harm.

We reject this chilling vision of the power of the state to strip away the critical right of parents to guide the religious development of their children.

Today, we hold that the parents have shown that they are entitled to a preliminary injunction.

I have no doubt that, if judges must allow the executive to act unlawfully in some circumstances, executive lawlessness will flourish.

I have no doubt that, if judges must allow the Executive to act unlawfully in some circumstances, as the Court concludes today, executive lawlessness will flourish, and from there, it is not difficult to predict how this all ends.

The Court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the Government to bypass the Constitution.

The go-ahead to sometimes wield the kind of unchecked, arbitrary power the Founders crafted our Constitution to eradicate

An existential threat to the rule of law.

Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more.

Creation of a zone of lawlessness

The uncertainty that would befall hospitals and states in the interim.

The absence of a nationwide injunction would require every individual affected by the executive order to file their own lawsuit, turning the government’s immigration enforcement into a 'catch-me-if-you-can kind of regime.'

An untold number of people currently entitled to U.S. citizenship would be without lawful status to remain in the country.

Our country will now consist of zone one, where individuals born in the country are granted birthright citizenship, and zone two, where they are non-citizens subject to deportation.

I express my deep disillusionment with the court for giving Trump this immense gift.

This decision is an existential threat to democracy and civil rights.

This lawlessness flourishes, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more.

The court has created a zone of lawlessness within which the executive has the prerogative to take or leave the law as it wishes.

One of the projects of the Roberts Court is to undo the progress of the 1960s and make the 19th century great again.

The Court’s decision today is not the first to so weaken the landmark civil rights protections that Congress enacted during the Reconstruction Era.

The Court’s decision to foreclose Medicaid recipients from using §1983 to enforce that provision thwarts Congress’s will twice over.

Today’s decision is likely to result in tangible harm to real people.

[T]he ability to decide who treats us at our most vulnerable.

[T]oday's decision is likely to result in tangible harm to real people.