Neil Gorsuch: “The ball is back in Congress' court”

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.

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.

That Fourth Amendment test, which the Court invented in 1967, has no basis in the Constitution's text or history.

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