Quick context: This is a Supreme Court case about a landlord who says USPS workers intentionally stopped delivering mail to her rental properties for an extended period.

Justice Sotomayor (dissent):

“…because they did not like ‘that a black person own[ed]’ the properties and ‘lease[d] rooms … to white people.’”

Justice Thomas (majority):

“We do not decide whether all of Konan’s claims are barred…”

Read together: the dissent foregrounds the alleged motive; the majority draws the boundary of what the Court is (and isn’t) deciding while holding that the FTCA “postal exception” can still bar suits even when nondelivery is intentional.