Subject: Re: any lawyers in the house?
but I think that conservative judges genuinely don't like the idea that the Executive can just "find" some old statutory provision and claim a novel power that Congress probably never contemplated

That’s adorable. Clearly several of the supremes’ votes are situational. Alito & Thomas vote straight party line, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch a bit less so but still supremely reliable. That’s a pretty good start for the Right to do most anything they want under cover of legitimacy. They need only get one vote out of either Roberts or Barrett and they’re on their way. As happens most of the time.