Sonia Sotomayor said...

What the government wants to do, concretely, is send the eight noncitizens it illegally removed from the United States f...

at once the symbol of our democracy and the most pervasive means for promoting our common destiny.

This is not the first time the Court closes its eyes to noncompliance, nor, I fear, will it be the last.

I cannot join so gross an abuse of the Court’s equitable discretion.