In Doe v. Groody (2004) (.pdf), Alito agued that police officers had not violated constitutional rights when they strip searched a mother and her ten-year-old daughter while carrying out a search warrant that authorized only the search of a man and his home.

The court ruled that, even though police officers asked for the power to search all persons, the warrant declined to grant such authority. In his lone dissent, Alito dismisses this, and goes into what "drug dealers" do and "commonsense" methods to oppose them. Never mind the law, his mind was made up.

This is called judicial activism. Legislating from the bench.

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