Neil Gorsuch: “The habitual drunkard laws on which the government relies here differ dramatically from [the federal] unlawful user…”

The Supreme Court of the United States has held in Roe vs. Wade that a fetus is not a person. That’s the law of the land. I accept the law of the land.

Many of the arguments before us today follow a sadly familiar pattern. Yes, promises were made but the price of keeping them has become too great so now we should just cast a blind eye. We reject that thinking.

They targeted different kinds of people, did so for different purposes, and operated in different ways.

Doesn’t it entangle the state tremendously when it has to go into a soup kitchen, send an inspector in, to see how much prayer is going on?