Reply #5: He was the lone dissenter

[Scooter24]

in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. This was about a law that required women to notify the child's father before having an abortion.

He then, surprisingly, ruled that partial-birth abortions were Constitutional.

But there are two other cases which worry me...

He ruled that female students who were physically sexually abused, including touching and sodomization, by fellow students during the course of a class do not have a cause of action under 42 U.S.C 1983 because the state does not have a special duty of caring for them. 42 U.S.C. 1983 allows for civil action for deprivation of rights.

He was the lone dissenter in US v. Rybar which upheld a federal statute making it "unlawful for any person to transfer or possess a machine gun." Alito would have stricken the law as unsupported by the Commerce Clause powers of Congress. In other words, in his view, we all have a Constitutional right to own a machine gun.