Everything is an emergency. We've moved so much up to the federal level that needs to be done by states. And now through delegations of authority, through emergency legislation of all stripes, we've moved it over to the executive branch…
Neil Gorsuch
The Public Record
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October 2, 2026
Courts should not be in the business of perpetuating administrative edicts designed for one emergency only because elected officials have failed to address a different emergency.
— Neil Gorsuch
Our nation is not founded on a religion. It’s not based on a common culture even, or heritage. It’s based on those ideas. We’re a creedal nation.
The Court should ditch those precedents, which he says are indefensible in theory and unworkable in practice.
That Fourth Amendment test, which the Court invented in 1967, has no basis in the Constitution's text or history.
When confronted with coercive prosecutorial tactics designed to induce defendants to take plea deals, the Court has often condoned those practices or let them pass in silence.
In our times, the jury trial has given way to a conveyor belt of plea bargains.
Today, independent agencies do not just exercise executive law-enforcement powers.
As I see it, Mr. Chatrie's Location History data qualifies as his personal property.
Apart from pointing to habitual drunkard laws, the government has not even attempted to prove that any other specific historical principle might justify its prosecution in this case.
They targeted different kinds of people, did so for different purposes, and operated in different ways.