Alito's Bias Against the Accused

After doing some more reading up on Alito, I am somewhat concerned about his long history as a career prosecutor and the bias he has demonstrated against those accused of crimes. A good post at TalkLeft.com (link here) discusses past examples of this bias, and predicts that he will be "a major proponent of the war on drugs, the death penalty and the war against immigrants, while he will rule to restrict habeas rights and Miranda."

This makes sense to me, since such a bias is not uncommon among ex-prosecutors. With Bush's terrible track record regarding civil liberties, as well as his practice of detaining terror suspects indefinitely without trial (as in the case of Jose Padilla) having such a judge on the bench to affirm his unconstitutional practices is dangerous. Depending on Roberts' views regarding civil liberties vs. presidential power, the court could tip in favor of such obviously anti-liberty measures if Alito is confirmed.

With this in mind, it seems that Alito is just another generic Republican who while being nominally supportive of limited government, is very likely to rule in favor of the myriad representations of the emerging American police state. This is of course the last thing we need in a country where most courts have lacked the sense to rule against the government in the Padilla case. I guess we should have expected this from a president who has openly shown his contempt for any restriction on executive power on more than one occasion.