Sonia Sotomayor: “As I said, I--I am hesitant of prejudging and saying they will or won't, because that will be what the parties are going…”

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.

Down one lies an orderly election, held under a tried-and-tested congressional map that protects Black Alabamians’ right to vote.

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 President can’t restructure federal agencies inconsistently with congressional mandates.