Neil Gorsuch

You would have to have a State that would pass a law like that.

I cannot imagine a State attempting to pass a law like that.

I cannot promise you more, and I cannot guarantee you any less.

A good judge starts with precedent and does not reinvent the wheel.

The plain text of the statute is usually a pretty good starting point.

I do worry when I am putting someone in prison, for example, or taking--involved in a ruling involving their liberty in particular, about charging them with knowledge of what happens in a Committee room.

Often enough the law can be a ass--a idiot, and there is little we judges can do about it, for it is, or should be, emphatically our job to apply, not rewrite, the law enacted by the people's representatives.

It has to be a rational reason, not one that I find personally persuasive.

We diffuse power to protect liberty.

Federalism is a key part of it.

Generally speaking, decisions based on independent and adequate State grounds are permissible.

There is simply no law anyone has pointed giving employees the right to operate vehicles in a way the employers forbid.