Procedural vote, not one on the merits of the appeal.
There is not one fact in this story that is correct. The AP is either completely slanted or they have an idiot writing for them. This 100 percent bullcrap article has been picked up by the Washington Post and SF Chronicle among others. How does this crap get printed?????
He's been on the SC for about 16 hours now and I'm sure he needs a little bit of time to review the case.
Not true at all.
refusing to let Missouri execute a death-row inmate contesting lethal injection.
Not true at all.
Alito, handling his first case, sided with inmate Michael Taylor, who had won a stay from an appeals court earlier in the evening. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas supported lifting the stay, but Alito joined the remaining five members in turning down Missouri's last-minute request to allow a midnight execution.
Not true at all. This isn't just bad spin, it has all the facts completely wrong. The only thing correct about the whole article is the date.
15 years of a strong conservative record and multiple times upholding the death penalty, this ruling means near nothing.
Right off the bat he doesn't toe the line.... I really am impressed.
A stay is not opposing an execution
someone call the National Review, George Will and ask them if this is what Harriet Meirs would have done? So much for getting a great replacement.
He is a human being. Let us see how this plays out.
An emergency request to short circuit the appeals court process is seldom granted except to prevent irreparable harm. In this case, the only harm would have been to the state's execution schedule, hence the state's request was not granted. And there is no way Alito has looked at the case.
1 decision and he's already being denounced. LOL.
at least this misleading headline will make some people in the country who are not interested in details think that the democrats are idiots for opposing someone like Alito. The MSM might have made a critical mistake here :-)
He did NOT oppose the execution, he simply voted to refuse to overturn the lower appeals court- essentially leaving the matter in the state appeals courts hands.
I see no problem with this.