Straight Shooter Gorsuch “Over Ruled”?

As a lawyer I’ve often bitched about “The Human Toll of Too Much Law.” Now, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has written a book on just that reality & how ordinary folks have struggled because of “federal overreach.”

Justice Gorsuch wrote in his book co-written by Janie Nitze & in reflecting on all his years as a judge he realized “that I had seen many – so many – cases where the sheer volume & complexity of our laws had swallowed up ordinary people.” The Fox News story reporting on the book also noted: “Sure, Justice Gorsuch [concedes], ‘some law is essential to our lives & our freedoms.’ Yet, ‘too much law’ can put those exact freedoms for law itself … [Folks] have gotten snagged without having any inkling why because of ‘our multitude of statutes, rules, regulations, orders, edicts & decrees.’”

Ironically perhaps, the Supreme cautions that “As a judge, my job is to apply the law … The best I can do is share with you what I have seen from my unusual vantage in our legal system.” Oh, but me thinks Justice Gorsuch is a tad too humble on this point. In all my years as a lawyer and law firm media consultant with international law firms I had seen many – so many – cases where “Judas Judges” and Liberal Lubricators have either turned a blind eye to properly “apply the law” or proactively reinvented the law they are supposed to apply. From his short time on the Highest Court, we can see Justice Gorsuch is, indeed, a “straight shooter” in this regard. If only we could say with confidence the same thing for others on the Supreme Court and in the many courts below them.

Davd Soul