“By forging ahead and granting relief to the Government anyway, 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.”

Joined by Justice Elena Kagan and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Justice Sonia Sotomayor authored a dissenting opinion in the case in which the Supreme Court granted a partial stay of nationwide injunctions issued by district judges against President Trump's executive order to effectively end birthright citizenship.