Neil Gorsuch: “I just wanted someone to come in and look at the law and look at the facts, study it as hard as they could, and make as…”

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.

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.

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.

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