Neil Gorsuch: “It is a miraculous system, really.”

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

Our nation is not founded on a religion. It’s not based on a common culture even, or heritage. It’s based on those ideas. We’re a creedal nation.

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.