Sonia Sotomayor: “the ruling was a travesty for the rule of the law and an open invitation to bypass the constitution.”

The reason the district court found intentional discrimination even after affording such deference to the Alabama Legislature is simple: The record is crystal clear.

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.

Congress passed the Refugee Act in 1980 because it did not want this country to repeat the mistakes of its past.

More people will turn back and be subjected to violence because of something they cannot or should not have to change about themselves, such as their race, religion, nationality, or political opinion.