The majority did not explain its decision in the brief, unsigned order. The court's three liberal justices opposed the order. Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the majority handed Trump the power to repeal laws passed by Congress “by firing all those necessary to carry them out.”

"The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them," Sotomayor wrote.

In their brief, Florida's lawyers acknowledged that the case involves adults and minors but said that "doesn't matter."

Jay Mitchell, who resigned from the Alabama Supreme Court to run for attorney general, got a boost to his campaign on Monday. Progress PAC, the political action committee of the Business Council of Alabama, endorsed Mitchell.