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

Today, this Court undoes centuries of political practice and concludes that all three branches of Government have been acting in open defiance of the Constitution all this time.

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.

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