You're being too generous to them, you're not taking a "liberal" stance on this issue. You're taking a constitutional and principled stance... which is what conservatives USED TO be about. These days? It's more about partisanship, sadly.
As I've been saying on other threads... if we play fast and loose with doing things the legal and constitutional way with those we don't like... we're only shooting ourselves in the foot, because that precedent that is set will almost certainly come back to bite us in the arse. That's already happened, and will only get worse if things keep going this way.