Neil Gorsuch: “I was wrong, Senator. I was wrong because I was bound by Circuit precedent, and I am sorry.”

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

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.

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.