Source: reason.com 8/7/24 In a new book, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch describes the “human toll” of proliferating criminal penalties. “Criminal laws have grown so exuberantly and come to cover so much previously innocent conduct that almost anyone can be arrested for something,” Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch observed in 2019. Gorsuch elaborates on that theme in a new book, showing how the proliferation of criminal penalties has given prosecutors enormous power to ruin people’s lives, resulting in the nearly complete replacement of jury trials with plea bargains. “Some scholars peg…
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