Sonia Sotomayor: “rewarding lawlessness”

The majority apparently deems it more important to free the Government from paying employees it had no right to fire than to avert these very real harms while the litigation continues.

Today, this Court undoes centuries of political practice and concludes that all three branches of Government have been acting in open defiance of the Constitution all this time.

Before the Court are two paths.

The President can’t restructure federal agencies inconsistently with congressional mandates.