Samuel Alito’s snide denial of his Jan. 6 flag is just as ugly as flying it in the first place
https://www.salon.com/2024/05/18/samuel-alitos-snide-denial-of-his-jan-6-flag-is-just-as-ugly-as-flying-it-in-the-first-place/
Samuel Alito’s snide denial of his Jan. 6 flag is just as ugly as flying it in the first place
https://www.salon.com/2024/05/18/samuel-alitos-snide-denial-of-his-jan-6-flag-is-just-as-ugly-as-flying-it-in-the-first-place/
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This behavior is horrible. Congress needs to … do something!?!
It’s pretty clear Alito is fine with America becoming controlled by an authoritarian right-wing government.
The guy is a fascist thug. Not surprised by this at all.
Still seems to give the appearance of a conflict of interest. Just like Clarence’s insurrectionist spouse does for him. And obviously much worse than the appearance of a conflict of interest caused by two prosecutors sleeping together or the employment of a judge’s child. But alas, these idiotic republicans will continue to kick and scream and cry about being the perpetual victims.
The same people who ignore this are the ones claiming Judge Merchan should have to recuse because his daughter is a Democrat.
He couldn’t care less what anyone thinks.
When is the press going to do a deep dive on this ?
His story stinks. Somehow the ‘school bus stop’ angle Alito quoted has now been scrubbed (since they weren’t running in January 2021), and considers the upside down flag a ‘normal’ response. I don’t know where they are living, but no where is an upside down flag ever a normal response.
I get the neighbors are afraid of reprisals, but come on.
And since his esteemed position as SCOTUS justice makes him above the law and immune from oversight, he never has to answer a follow up question:
*How is flying the American flag upside down supposed to be interpreted as a commentary on the signage in your neighbor’s yard?*
They don’t have to answer for anything. They make their own rules and decide for themselves if they’ve broken them.
it’s absolutely depressing how far down the page this story and the Diddy one are on nytimes. main stories are oh no! Biden is the devil for raising tariffs on China!!
Won’t even stand up for what he believes in publicly. What a colossal coward and this is how you know they understand how intellectually and socially unacceptable their beliefs are. But somehow people will convince themselves that the liberal judges are the extremists. Our culture and society is very sick.
So kneeling during national anthem = bad. Hanging flag upside down = good.
Got it.
Comon folks. So outraged? This was many many months ago. No wonder the imperialists get away with everything. How come he wasn’t held accountable when it happened years ago?
Seems to be a pattern with these right wing zealots.
Throwing wives under busses must be an Olympic sport for them.
I think one of the big things history books will talk about of this time is how the conduct of the Supreme Court eroded the people’s confidence in it. The scandals concerning extravagant (and largely unreported) gifts to Thomas in order to curry influence, the clearly horrible things his wife got away with, the illegitimate refusal to confirm Obama’s pick a year and a half before an election, and yet slamming through Barrett while an election was ALREADY IN PROCESS via mail-in ballots, now this gem. For too long we’ve relied on tradition and decorum to do the job that laws and consequences need to. Enough with no accountability for the highest court, they need to be removable too.
Idk someone should find dirt on his kids like chief Robert’s.
I find it interesting that anyone would believe anything he says. He’s an opportunistic ideologue who will say or do whatever is necessary to get what he wants. Absolutely zero credibility.
Seems like this show of solidarity popped up immediately after those trump supporters showed up to poop themselves in solidarity. Maybe it’s a coincidence but I can’t help wondering.
He’s not accountable to anyone snd he knows it.
Their wives. The reason Alito and Thomas so strongly favour laws that control women, cause they can’t control their own. Poor guy, she wouldn’t even let him take it down. And so selfish, she clearly doesn’t care about his legacy or weighty office that he holds. There is just nothing he could do to fix it
Nothing will come of this but I love that the timing of this is just before Alito is expected to be voting on the immunity case. At least he will be seen for what he really is if he votes against and then hopefully smeared by the news for the next several months like Thomas. I like to see him sniveling too.
The comfort of modern Republican politicians (including political activist judges!) with total dishonesty on all matters, small or large, is frightening.
He’s just a big fan of classic Danzig.
I think it would be appropriate to require that justices on the Supreme Court appear in public inquests once per year, just to remind them that they are not untouchable beings above the rest of us.
Anti American asshole
Anyone (left or right) who flies the flag upside down when there is no “dire distress” and “extreme danger” to “life and property” is literally “disrespecting” the flag per U.S. Flag Code.
As an American and veteran I find the politicization of our flag shameful. I know I’m swimming against the tide but it’s just plain wrong. It’s literally the only thing we have that we should all feel proud of and agree upon.
*§ 8. Respect for flag*
*No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.*
*(a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.*
People are taking this too seriously. It’s just an upside down flag. Which has been a normal thing since the 17th century
dude knows he could show up to work dressed as a klansmen and not have any repercussions
Always blaming the wives
Republicans asking Fani Willis to step aside for the “appearance of impropriety” is rich. Crickets o we alito.
You bet your ass that if ANY liberal / democrat did anything remotely near what Trump and the rest of the GOP did there would be full application of law and order.
Every single conservative is a piece of shit.
Alito’s “denial” is obviously a lie – the notion that a wife of an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court is unilaterally deciding what flag is flown outside the justice’s home without his input is a blatant lie. It wasn’t up for a few hours – it was up for days. That didn’t happen without Justice Alito’s sanction if not directly by his own hand.
So the real question is what happens when a sitting justice on the Supreme Court openly lies to the American public about something that goes to the core of the justice’s loyalty to the United States?
That lie actually undermines Justice Alito and calls his entire jurisprudence into question *more* than his openly flying a symbol of disloyalty to the country that he purports to serve as a justice on its highest court. If Justice Alito lies to the American people about the flag in his own front yard and how it got there, can we really believe he is an honest jurist calling balls and strikes? With a lie like Alito’s hanging out there in the open, does anyone really still believe his denials about leaking the *Dobbs* opinion to Politico? It’s just blatantly obvious now that the man is dishonest and there is no way the Court can endure with a dishonest jurist sitting up there; that tension can never be resolved.
His colleagues should be publicly calling for his resignation. And beyond that he should be shunned and cast out by them if nothing else. Frankly, I think the Court can do something radical and should: a statement from the other 8 justices saying that the Court asserts it’s prerogative to act unanimously to exclude from its membership any justice who does not command the respect of his colleagues and otherwise brings dishonor on the Court and its decisions, stating also that Justice Alito will not be permitted to participate in conference with the other justices, his opinions on cases will not be solicited or published in the US reports, and that his dissents and concurrences in cases thenceforward shall not be accorded any precedential or persuasive value by any federal court. Let him “appeal” that decision to a higher court and leave it at that.
There is nothing supreme about the majority of this court. Just a bunch of racist turds.
He needs to go just like clarience Thomas