Sonia Sotomayor: “We, as a Nation and a court of law, should be better than this.”

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.

I respectfully dissent.

Equity does not support such an inequitable result.

The ban is absolute, so B. P. J. cannot practice on girls’ teams, even if she would not take anyone’s spot in an eventual competition, even if everyone who tries out for the team makes it, and even if having the chance to participate could…