Landor v. Louisiana Dept of Corrections and Public Safety · ¶93

From that kernel, though, the majority sprouts a dramatic innovation. The conditions prescribed in Spending Clause legislation, the majority insists, may not bind anybody but the funding recipient itself, no matter the recipient’s relationship to the nonrecipient (i.e., sovereign, employer, or, as here, both), and no matter how essential the conditions are to Congress’s spending program.

slip opinion, revised 6/28/26
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