Neil Gorsuch: “I believe in the openness and transparency of a courtroom, the ability of every person to come into it, poor or rich…”

If human nature and history teach us anything, it is that civil liberties face grave risks when governments proclaim indefinite states of emergency.

[o]ne can only hope the political branches and future courts will do their duty to honor this Nation's promises even as we have failed today to do our own.

Once a case is settled that adds to the determinacy of the law.

Many of the arguments before us today follow a sadly familiar pattern. Yes, promises were made but the price of keeping them has become too great so now we should just cast a blind eye. We reject that thinking.