Sonia Sotomayor said...

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

Thus, the majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review.

No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.

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