[Dr. Franklin]

No, but he is also not looking at the big picture. Alito is mostly a statist, like almost all judges on the supreme court.He is much more willing to side with federal power than anything else (examples are found in his treatment of 'asset forfeiture', the 'drug war', among other things.

In brief, Alito thinks all is right with the world because he in on top. He defends the right of the state to do whatever it wants, along with its agents, while he is hostile to the rights of the individual. He defines the Bill of Rights narrowly, and finds that government officials have immunity when they violate rights. He prefers the federal government over the state government. Hence he is a federalist.

[zeugma]

In brief, Alito thinks all is right with the world because he in on top. He defends the right of the state to do whatever it wants, along with its agents, while he is hostile to the rights of the individual. He defines the Bill of Rights narrowly, and finds that government officials have immunity when they violate rights. He prefers the federal government over the state government. Hence he is a federalist.

I really don't have a lot of disagreement with this statement. I've been reading supreme court decisions and oral arguments for years, and have generally been severely disappointed with how little the court is actually concerned about the rights of citizens, and how much weight they give to any claim made by a government lackey at any level.