Sonia Sotomayor

No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.

No right is safe in a regime where courts cannot fully protect those before them.

Strips federal courts of the ability to safeguard constitutional rights in the face of nationwide executive overreach.

Today, the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, a different administration may try to seize firearms from law-abiding citizens or prevent people of certain faiths from gathering to worship.

By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims.

Thus, the majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review.

Books expressing implicit support for patriotism, women’s rights, interfaith marriage, consumption of meat, immodest dress, and countless other topics may conflict with sincerely held religious beliefs.

In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor masterfully exposed Alito’s extralegal interpretive maneuvers.

I cannot join so gross an abuse of the Court’s equitable discretion.

We, as a Nation and a court of law, should be better than this.

The Government’s conduct in this litigation poses an extraordinary threat to the rule of law.

This Court’s precedent establishes beyond a shade of doubt that the Executive Order is unconstitutional.

No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.

This Court endorses the radical proposition that the President is harmed, irreparably, whenever he cannot do something he wants to do, even if what he wants to do is break the law.

Would be well advised to file promptly class-action suits and to request temporary injunctive relief for the putative class pending class certification.

A grave and unsupported diminution of the judicial power of equity

No matter how illegal a law or policy, courts can never simply tell the executive to stop enforcing it against anyone.

This is not the first time the Court closes its eyes to noncompliance, nor, I fear, will it be the last.

No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.

Today, the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, a different administration may try to seize firearms from law-abiding citizens or prevent people of certain faiths from gathering to worship.

The reverberations of the Court’s error will be felt, I fear, for generations. Unable to condone that grave misjudgment, I dissent.

The court’s new decision, she said, strikes at the core premise of public schools: that children may come together to learn not the teachings of a particular faith, but a range of concepts and views that reflect our entire society.

It is inconceivable that learning should be shackled to a moment in time.

Given the great diversity of religious beliefs in this country, countless interactions that occur every day in public schools might expose children to messages that conflict with a parents' beliefs.

The result will be chaos for this nation's public schools.