Neil Gorsuch: “Courts should not be in the business of perpetuating administrative edicts designed for one emergency only because…”

In our times, the jury trial has given way to a conveyor belt of plea bargains.

Congress has also delegated to them vast legislative and judicial powers.

The Court should ditch those precedents, which he says are indefensible in theory and unworkable in practice.

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.