Sonia Sotomayor: “The First Amendment commands that we respect people's rights to engage in hateful speech.”

Equity does not support such an inequitable result.

Today, the Court discards that democratic regime in favor of one that distorts the structure of Government to fit the majority’s theory of unitary, total executive control.

After today, it is hard to call Alabama’s cynical gambit anything other than a success, and the Court’s rewarding of Alabama’s behavior anything other than a blow to the rule of law.

Down one lies an orderly election, held under a tried-and-tested congressional map that protects Black Alabamians’ right to vote.