Sonia Sotomayor: “You do not deserve this, sir. I am deeply sorry for you and your family, but I have no choice.”

In addition to being wrong on the merits, the Court’s decision inflicts two grave harms on the public.

The result is a President who emerges with far greater power than ever before. It is a power, however, that neither the People, nor Congress, nor the Constitution bestowed upon him.

When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary's duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.

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.