Trump v. Slaughter · ¶70
The dissent contends that we ignore the reliance interests of “[o]rdinary Americans and regulated firms alike.” Post, at 39. Quite the contrary. “In its valiant search for reliance interests,” it is “the dissent [that] somehow misses maybe the most important one: the reliance interests of the American people . . . in the preservation of our constitutionally promised liberties.” Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U. S. 83, 110–111 (2020) (plurality opinion of GORSUCH, J., joined by, inter alios, SOTOMAYOR, J.). “The diffusion of power carries with it a diffusion of accountability.” Free Enterprise Fund, 561 U. S., at 497. When power is exercised well, the people know whom to thank; when power is exercised poorly, they know whom to blame—and whom to fire. That is the very premise of our system of government. See The Federalist No. 70, at 424 (A. Hamilton) (“The ingredients which constitute safety in…Read in context ›
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