Sonia Sotomayor: “I was trying to inspire them to believe that their life experiences would enrich the legal system.”

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.

Before the Court are two paths.

This Court has previously recognized that immigration statutes and procedures should not be construed to ‘create a perverse incentive to enter at an unlawful rather than a lawful location. Yet, the majority’s construction does exactly that.

Congress passed the Refugee Act in 1980 because it did not want this country to repeat the mistakes of its past.