Sonia Sotomayor said...

the Government has made clear in word and deed that it feels itself unconstrained by law, free to deport anyone anywhere...

Few constitutional questions can be answered by resort to the text of the Constitution alone.

The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempts to hide it.

Thus, the majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review.