Posted on 08/04/2024 11:37:33 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that the United States has too many federal laws.
Host Shannon Bream said, “I think it will be eye opening to the American people, the idea that so pretty much of our conduct is over regulated and over criminalized many cases. Apparently you and are committing felonies every day without possibly even knowing it.”
Gorsuch said, “I think that might be true. Some professors say there are now so many federal laws on the books that every American over the age of 18 commits one felony a day. That’s happened in my lifetime. 1970 to the present we’ve seen maybe a doubling the number of federal crimes on the books. And this just counts within the U.S. code passed by Congress and the tip of the iceberg because federal agencies have been busy.”
He added, “On the one hand we need laws to keep us free and safe, on the other hand, if you have too many laws you impair the same freedoms and our aspirations for equality too are there to because you can deal with the world was so pretty much law?”
Gorsuch added, “As a judge for 18 years, I just came to see him case after case trying to live their lives raise their families and just getting whacked by laws unexpectedly.”
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Ya think?
If you want to be a one issue voter, the fact that Trump could possibly put two more Gorsuch on the bench with hundreds more below at the Federal level or Harris will pick two Garland types and destroy SCOTUS and the Federal bench completing Brandon’s dirty work.
Treason, Piracy and Counterfeiting are the only offenses spelled out in the Constitution.
Congress was also given the power to regulate inter-state trade and congress has stretched that power to the hilt (far beyond its intended purpose).
All other laws should be in the powers of the state because those powers are not delegated to the Federal Government.
The famous Tacitus axiom states that the corruption level of the state is directly proportional to the number of laws.
I committed one just the other day…
Old laws too!
And one of the big problems is that many of these "laws" are actually written by people who are hired by bureaucrats to dream up regulations to increase the power of the bureaucracies.
The other is the whining little tattletales that just LIVE for reporting people who might violate one of those regulations to the authorities.
No one likes a tattle tale. Not even the people who use them.
Okay Neily, you can save the USA, and if ever world needed a hero, it is now.
Yeah, boy, you can’t get anything past this guy.
Years ago I was told that the average law abiding citizen broke at least a half dozen laws, regulations, codes, statutes, etc. every day. For a while, I would look at the human interest photo in the local paper, and find what laws were being broken. Example, a college kid giving his friend a haircut. We would probably know that the kid giving the haircut was unlicensed, thus a lawbreaker, but the kid getting the haircut was also a felon. Take a look at your local codes. I’ll bet that you or your neighbor don’t strictly adhere to the established rules concerning your garbage cans.
The way SCOTUS makes tiny, focused decisions on large cases, leaving the door wide open to interpretations don’t help...
I am pleased that Gorsuch appeared on television to state a case. The Democrats extoll the virtue whenever one (or all three) of their harridans makes public comments. Are conservative justices prohibited?
That ship sailed a long, long time ago.
Darn. That was going to be my post. Just shows what incites a law degree provide.
Nothing new there. I have a book published in 1951 in which the author mentions a study that estimated that the average citizen in one American city would unwittingly break enough laws over the course of one year to spend over 1,825 years in prison and to be liable for fines in excess of two million dollars.
The book is My Six Convicts, by Donald Powell Wilson, and the passage referring to the study is on page 185. There’s no actual citation of the study itself, though.
The book should be revised to state that “the average Republican citizen” is the only one wo would face consequences. The laws are not equally applied to Democrats.
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