Neil Gorsuch: “That is the law of the land. I accept the law of the land, Senator, yes.”

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.

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

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.

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