Sonia Sotomayor: “The government has made clear in word and deed that it feels itself unconstrained by law, free to deport anyone anywhere…”

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

Today, the Court discards that democratic regime in favor of one that distorts the structure of Government to fit the majority’s theory of unitary, total executive control.

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

After today, it is hard to call Alabama’s cynical gambit anything other than a success, and the Court’s rewarding of Alabama’s behavior anything other than a blow to the rule of law.