{"id":15507,"date":"2024-11-28T16:14:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T16:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15507"},"modified":"2024-11-28T16:14:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T16:14:36","slug":"neil-gorsuchs-new-book-is-an-embarrassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15507","title":{"rendered":"Neil Gorsuch\u2019s New Book Is an Embarrassment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“In fact, most federal criminal prosecutions are immigration, drug and gun cases<\/a>. The largest numbers of federal inmates are in custodybecause they were convicted of drug, weapon and sex offenses<\/a>. The story is similar in state prison systems, where roughly 90 percent of the inmates are in custody because they were convicted of a violent offense, property crime or a drug offense<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legal system is far from flawless \u2014 and plenty of Americans sincerely believe that there are too many laws and regulations in the country \u2014but Gorsuch\u2019s selective and misleadingly presented case studies do not tell us anything particularly useful about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be sure, there are some redeeming features of the book. Gorsuch criticizes occupational licensing requirements, the exorbitant cost of legal services in this country and the ways in which they burden working- and middle-class Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what\u2019s left out of the book is often just as instructive \u2014 if not more so \u2014 than what\u2019s in it. His interest in government overreach stops short when it comes to liberal causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an anecdotal book about overzealous prosecutors, there are no stories about people being sent to prison because they mistakenly tried to vote<\/a> when they weren\u2019t eligible or about laws that make it illegal to give voters water<\/a> while they wait in line. There are no stories about women being arrested because they had miscarriages<\/a>, part of the ongoing fallout from the decision by Gorsuch and his fellow Republican appointees to overturn Roe v. Wade.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/10\/15\/neil-gorsuch-book-supreme-court-00183518<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“In fact, most federal criminal prosecutions are immigration, drug and gun cases. The largest numbers of federal inmates are in custody because they were convicted of drug, weapon and sex offenses. The story is similar in state prison systems, where roughly 90 percent of the inmates are in custody because they were convicted of a violent offense, property crime or a drug offense.
\nThe legal system is far from flawless \u2014 and plenty of Americans sincerely believe that there are too many laws and regulations in the country \u2014 but Gorsuch\u2019s selective and misleadingly presented case studies do not tell us anything particularly useful about it.<\/p>\n

To be sure, there are some redeeming features of the book. Gorsuch criticizes occupational licensing requirements, the exorbitant cost of legal services in this country and the ways in which they burden working- and middle-class Americans.<\/p>\n

But what\u2019s left out of the book is often just as instructive \u2014 if not more so \u2014 than what\u2019s in it. His interest in government overreach stops short when it comes to liberal causes.<\/p>\n

In an anecdotal book about overzealous prosecutors, there are no stories about people being sent to prison because they mistakenly tried to vote when they weren\u2019t eligible or about laws that make it illegal to give voters water while they wait in line. There are no stories about women being arrested because they had miscarriages, part of the ongoing fallout from the decision by Gorsuch and his fellow Republican appointees to overturn Roe v. Wade.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/10\/15\/neil-gorsuch-book-supreme-court-00183518<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[305,790,1417,167,481,1489,1213,1263,528],"class_list":["post-15507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bias","tag-courts","tag-gorsuch","tag-government","tag-ideological","tag-judges","tag-judiciary","tag-partisanship","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15508,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507\/revisions\/15508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}