Neil Gorsuch: “We have not just the First Amendment free exercise clause in this country, very important protection.”

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

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.

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