Alito

[Alex]

I disagree scaeagles. It isn't like the Supreme Court had rules on a simliar case five years ago and he could dissent hoping that something had changed.

The Supreme Court ruled on essentially an identical case in between the time his court started writing its opinion and when the opinion was issued. There was no way he could have ruled other than he did without completely rebuffing the supreme court.

But regardless, at no point in that case did he rule on the merits and it certainly gives no indication of how he would have ruled if he had been on the Supreme Court rather than a lower court.

I don't think a refusal to bluntly say "**** you" to the Supreme Court shows much restraint.