Neil Gorsuch: “Ours is public law. That is our system, made by the people and their representatives, a government by the people, for…”

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

Apart from pointing to habitual drunkard laws, the government has not even attempted to prove that any other specific historical principle might justify its prosecution in this case.

Today, independent agencies do not just exercise executive law-enforcement powers.

Courts should not be in the business of perpetuating administrative edicts designed for one emergency only because elected officials have failed to address a different emergency.