Sonia Sotomayor: “As a judge I don't make policy. I don't make the policy choices for Congress.”

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.

It also corrodes the rule of law by rewarding Alabama’s gamesmanship and outright defiance of court orders.

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

More people will be forced to walk along the U. S.-Mexico border in dangerous conditions, trying to find a port that will inspect them.