Sonia Sotomayor: “I cannot join so gross an abuse of the Court’s equitable discretion.”

Down one lies an orderly election, held under a tried-and-tested congressional map that protects Black Alabamians’ right to vote.

It also corrodes the rule of law by rewarding Alabama’s gamesmanship and outright defiance of court orders.

The President can’t restructure federal agencies inconsistently with congressional mandates.

The majority apparently deems it more important to free the Government from paying employees it had no right to fire than to avert these very real harms while the litigation continues.