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Gorsuch lays out Constitution’s separation of powers with remarkable clarity

OPINION:

Editor’s note: This is one in a series examining the Constitution and Federalist Papers in today’s America. Click HERE to read the series.

Given the constitutional significance of the Supreme Court’s decision last month in West Virginia v. EPA, in which the high court reasserted the essential nature of the government’s separation of powers, it is worth sharing the remarkable clarity of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch’s concurrence.

Below are the highlights of that concurrence.

“The major questions doctrine works … to protect the Constitution’s separation of powers.