Sonia Sotomayor: “Suppose an executive order barred women from receiving unemployment benefits or black citizens from voting.”

The one thing that does appear to be clear going forward is that chaos will follow.

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.

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.

The consequences of today’s decision are predictable. More people will die.