The media and political insiders have become so accustomed to calling radical, authoritarian Republicans “conservatives” or “hard-line conservatives” that it is easy to forget what real conservatives used to and still do sound like. Fortunately, a group of them submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in support of U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan’s ruling that four-times-indicted former president Donald Trump doesn’t enjoy immunity from any actions taken during his presidency. Therein, we can find the principles that used to guide the Republican Party.