I’m conservative and having A USSC justice say it is alright to gather and keep personal cell phone call info on people if the government thinks it’s important is scary as hell. What else does he think the government should be allowed to do of it thinks it’s important for our safety? Take away our guns we could use them to start and armed rebellion. Search our cars without a warrant and probable cause, maybe do unwarranted searches lf our homes when we are at work? After all there might be stuff to find that the government could use to protect us from ourselves. If I was on the Senate committee I have some real hard questions for this man.
"The Government’s collection of telephony metadata from a third party such as a telecommunications service provider is not considered a search under the Fourth Amendment, at least under the Supreme Court’s decision in Smith v. Maryland, 442 U.S. 735 (1979). That precedent remains binding on lower courts in our hierarchical system of absolute vertical stare decisis."
I.e., he is following the law, not making it.