Scalia was actually kind of pro-civil liberties too, if he had lived I wouldn't be surprised if he had ruled as Gorsuch did.
I completely agree. Scalia was actually really awesome on cases like these. It's interesting that Gorsuch is somewhat taking up his jurisprudence. That's actually not the disaster we could have had. I wish Breyer had retired when Obama still had the Senate. He's by far the most disappointing of the liberal justices and I have a hard time making sense of some of his reasonings.