Sonia Sotomayor: “If I were confirmed for the--to the court, it would be the first case that I would participate in.”

This Court has previously recognized that immigration statutes and procedures should not be construed to ‘create a perverse incentive to enter at an unlawful rather than a lawful location. Yet, the majority’s construction does exactly that.

When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary's duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.

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

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