conservativehighly , but on the conservative side of the ledger. what you have are touchstones from the past that signal to republicans that he is what they hope and not touching off a firestorm with liberals. charlie: you suggest that he is asthe right, but as far alito, scalia, thomas? emily: justice thomas is on the right and there are issues where he would be more in alignment with thomas then roberts or alito, like the power of the administrative state. we have had a rule where courts differ to federal agencies to sort out ambiguous statutes and writing rules. judge gorsuch has questioned that precedent. to theakes that you logical endpoint on the supreme court, he would tear down a lot of authority federal agencies have to craft rules and regulations. rules that a lot of career employees have crafted. out of thoseaken powers, it gets sent back to congress. charlie: issues of war and peace? he signed onto and helped shape some of the bush administration controversial policies. he supported a signing statement that president bush signed that re