Sonia Sotomayor: “Today, the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, a different administration may try to seize firearms from…”

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.

The one thing that does appear to be clear going forward is that chaos will follow.

Because I cannot condone such abuse of our equitable authority, I respectfully dissent.

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.