My only question would be, then (and it IS rhetorical) why would a conservative be on the 0-team side of this issue.
afraid of civil unrest
Despite the rhetorical question, the answer is because there is no legal merit to the claim. It's not a conservative/liberal issue. It's a legal one, and these cases are junk, brought, in large part, by lawyers that can't be taken seriously.
Look: if there were merit to these cases, don't you think the RNC would be funding them and they'd get actual, good lawyers, like, say, Ken Starr or Ted Olson to argue?
Instead, these cases are brought by people that write on blogs about how the FBI is sending black helicopters to Washington to prevent him from filing a brief.