Shannon Bream was speechless when a top Justice revealed this unthinkable truth

The weaponization of government against freedom-loving Americans is escalating at an alarming rate.

Democrats and their media allies have gone all-in on wiping out anyone who has the audacity to disagree with any aspect of their agenda.

But Shannon Bream was speechless when a top Justice revealed this unthinkable truth.

You’re committing felonies without knowing it

The U.S. federal government has become the largest, most powerful government in the history of human civilization over the past 125 years or so.

With many Americans slowly but surely abdicating their role in keeping a government supposedly “of the people, by the people, for the people” in check, choosing instead to turn to government — and by extension, the ruling class — to solve all of their problems and inconveniences, the elites have happily seized more power and control for themselves under the guise of the so-called “public good.”

As a result, politicians and unelected bureaucrats alike have ballooned the Federal Register — which entails every federal rule and regulation that currently makes up the law — to more than 90,000 pages.

And that doesn’t include the federal tax code, which reportedly exceeds 75,000 pages once all of the additional regulations and official tax guidelines issued by the unelected bureaucrats at the IRS are included.

There are now so many laws, rules, and regulations that working class Americans have to navigate that Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression co-founder Harvey Silverglate concluded in his book, Three Felonies A Day: How The Feds Target The Innocent, that the average American possibly commits three felonies every single day without even knowing it.

This is a reality that Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch knows well.

In fact, he’s recently released a new book, Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law, in which he explains how working-class Americans are “getting whacked” by the overcriminalization of the weaponized U.S. government.

“Just the tip of the iceberg”

And during a recent interview with Fox News’ Shannon Bream, Justice Gorsuch highlighted just how overbearing the federal bureaucracy has become for every American adult.

“I think it will be eye-opening to the American people, the idea that so much of our conduct is over-regulated and, by default, over-criminalized in many cases,” Bream said. “Apparently, you and I are committing felonies every day without possibly even knowing it.”

“I think that might be true,” Gorsuch replied. “Some professors say there are now so many federal laws on the books – crimes – that every American over the age of 18 commits one felony a day.”

The Justice went on to note that the overwhelming majority of the overcriminalization problem has been created by Congress and unelected federal bureaucrats since the 1970s.

“That’s happened in my lifetime,” Gorsuch explained. “1970 to the present we’ve seen maybe a doubling of the number of federal crimes on the books. And that just counts what’s in the code – the U.S. code passed by Congress – and that’s just the tip of the iceberg because federal agencies have been busy too.”

Gorsuch went on to say that while we certainly need laws in a civilized society, the overcriminalization of Americans is only benefitting the real class elites.

“On the one hand, we need laws to keep us free and safe,” the Justice told Bream. “On the other hand, if you have too many laws, you impair those same freedoms and our aspirations for equality, too, because who can deal with a world with so much law? James Madison said it’s going to be the people with money and connections.”

“As a judge, now for 18 years, I just came to see case after case in which ordinary Americans — just trying to live their lives, not hurt anybody, raise their families — who are just getting whacked by laws unexpectedly,” he added.

The U.S. government is out of control, but it will only be reined in once working-class Americans remember that they still have the power to change things.