Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch highlighted an example from his new book about how having hundreds of thousands of federal laws on the books harms average Americans who have no idea that the laws even exist.
Gorsuch made the remarks about his new book “Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law” during an interview on PBS’s “Firing Line with Margaret Hoover” that aired Friday when asked about how the sheer volume of laws “present a burden on average Americans”.
“Well, let’s do the numbers. In just my lifetime, federal law has grown massively,” he said. “We’ve seen maybe a doubling in the number of federal criminal offenses on the books. There are so many regulations now carrying criminal consequences that nobody knows how many there are. There are at least 300,000.”
Gorsuch then delved into a story from his a book about John and Sandra Yates, a married…
