Sonia Sotomayor: “The Government’s conduct in this litigation poses an extraordinary threat to the rule of law.”

The majority’s opinion ends by reciting the many wonderful ways in which playing sports can be valuable to young people.

This Court has previously recognized that immigration statutes and procedures should not be construed to ‘create a perverse incentive to enter at an unlawful rather than a lawful location. Yet, the majority’s construction does exactly that.

The benefits are immense.

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.