Neil Gorsuch: “I take that seriously, and you had better believe I expect judicial decrees to be obeyed.”

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

Everything is an emergency. We've moved so much up to the federal level that needs to be done by states. And now through delegations of authority, through emergency legislation of all stripes, we've moved it over to the executive branch…

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

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.