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On the recordJuly 14, 2025
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.
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Sonia Sotomayor
New York

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Sotomayor criticizing the majority's decision regarding employee layoffs.

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