Sonia Sotomayor said...

The Government’s conduct in this litigation poses an extraordinary threat to the rule of law.

No matter how illegal a law or policy, courts can never simply tell the executive to stop enforcing it against anyone.

The court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the Government to bypass the Constitution.

Today, the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, a different administration may try to seize firearms from law-...