[GeronL]

There is NO conservative argument for it

[Olog-hai]

Precisely. Whenever someone touts a “conservative case” for a leftist cause, that someone is himself a liberal, often trying to pass himself off as “conservative”.

[OneWingedShark]

There is NO conservative argument for it

Sure there is — if you take conservative to mean keeping things the same.
The government wants to keep off the constraints of the Constitution that it's thrown off.