Sonia Sotomayor: “Court decisions stand whether one particular person chooses to abide by them or not.”

Equity does not support such an inequitable result.

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 created the Department, and only Congress can abolish it.

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