Neil Gorsuch: “Doesn’t it entangle the state tremendously when it has to go into a soup kitchen, send an inspector in, to see how much…”

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.

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

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.