Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch lobbed a subtle jab at Congress over its increasing tendency to cede its own power, and in turn, offload responsibilities to the nation’s highest court during an interview published Wednesday in The New York Times.

The Times’ David French sat down with Gorsuch for a lengthy interview coinciding with the impending 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and at one point, pressed the justice who was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2017 on Congress having increasingly ceded its power, a phenomenon well documented by analysts and experts.

The once tight bond between Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and MAGA ally Mike Davis has fractured, offering a personal window into the broader rift between the Trump administration and the justices it helped appoint.

Gorsuch once nicknamed Davis "the general" for the leading role he's taken in his career, first by helping him secure his first federal judgeship, then by leading the public campaign for his Supreme Court confirmation and later serving as one of his inaugural clerks – but that closeness has since deteriorated, reported The Daily Beast.

President Donald Trump and his allies are barreling toward a historic "clash" with the Supreme Court – including with conservative justices he personally appointed – unlike anything seen in nearly 100 years, a legal expert told The Washington Post.

“It seems like almost 100 years since you’ve had a clash approaching this level between the president and the court,” said Jeffrey Fisher, a law professor and co-director of Stanford University’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. “You’d have to go back to the New Deal to have any kind of an analogue.”