Well this is really a shocker and I don’t know how to read into it yet
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.
Complete article can be read
here.
This is very interesting. Will we hear right wing pundits bitching that they
should of voted against him now? Only time will tell. It is only his first
ruling.