Sonia Sotomayor: “The majority apparently deems it more important to free the Government from paying employees it had no right to fire…”

It hands the Executive the power to repeal statutes by firing all those necessary to carry them out.

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

Congress created the Department, and only Congress can abolish it.

The reason the district court found intentional discrimination even after affording such deference to the Alabama Legislature is simple: The record is crystal clear.