Neil Gorsuch: “If human nature and history teach us anything, it is that civil liberties face grave risks when governments proclaim…”

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

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.

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…

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