Neil Gorsuch: “Personal politics or policy preferences have no useful role in judging.”

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.

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

Congress has also delegated to them vast legislative and judicial powers.

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