Not surprised that Roberts would support such action, but Alito? That caught me offguard.
Scalia and Thomas respect the Constitution. I’m never sure about any of the others. Sometimes it works out OK.
Alito belongs to that group of conservatives, very familiar to my age group, of law and order conservatives. This was reprsented by Nixon, to a lesser extent by Reagan and to a much greater extent by Giuliani. Living in NY I supported Rudy’s efforts but many law and order conservatives had the emphasis on order not law. With the increase in libertarian GOPers and conservatives these ideas seem dangerously close to tyranny. Unlike liberals for whom honesty and consistency are values to be winked at, conservatives try to maintain both as values and the paradox of law and order v liberatian values is difficult to overcome.