AOC calls for Senate inquiry into flags flown at Samuel Alito’s homes |
Representative called for investigation after another report of insurrectionist-linked flag flown at supreme court justice’s home

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/23/aoc-samuel-alito-flag-supreme-court

22 comments

  1. Alito – “My dog was in a dispute with the neighbor’s cat and without my knowledge flew that flag as a protest.”

  3. He has a right to fly whatever flag he wants. The problem is that he allows the beliefs underpinning the flag – his personal beliefs – to dictate how he carries out the duties of his government position.

    Instead of looking at what flags he is flying, we should be taking a closer look at all of the justices’ bank accounts to see who is paying them to violate the oath that they made to our Constitution.

  4. Vote Blue so we can fix SCOTUS and save the USA. I’m not kidding.

  5. AOC can call for all the inquiries she wants but she needs to realize Alito, Thomas , Collins and Trump are all above the law.

  6. Civil servants are governed by the Hatch Act. It’s pretty specific about what political activity can be done or not be done. And although flying a flag upside down to show support is probably legal, it’s not an act you’d expect from a Supreme Court Justice.

  7. The highest court in the land has no ethics rules, just gentle suggestions. It’s shocking the only way the US survived so far is because of common decency and gentlemen’s agreements.

  9. I’m all for investigations and public outcry, but just want to be clear and realistic here:

    Alito isn’t going to recuse himself. He’s not going to be impeached. We are likely not going to have majorities or willpower to reform or expand the Supreme Court anytime soon, if ever.

    But what WILL happen involves the tried-and-true facts that have always altered the Supreme Court throughout history: Elections matter, and time marches on.

    Alito is 74. Thomas is about to be 76. They will be 78 and 80 at the end of the next Presidential term, and will gladly retire under a Republican President – allowing 40-year olds to replace them.

    – If a Republican wins the 2024 election, we will have a conservative Supreme Court *locked for most of the rest of our lives*, if not longer.

    – If a Democrat wins, especially the next two terms – we can very likely turn the tides on SCOTUS within a decade.

  10. This will go nowhere. SCOTUS justices have as much of a legal right to speech as you or I have. More, in fact, since there are no ethics standards for SCOTUS.

  11. We need to make it law that you if fly terrorist colors and flags, you are dismissed from the roster.

  12. this is what i truly don’t understand about the alito flags

    this happened more than 3 years ago. Neighbors obviously knew, one of them contacted the NY Times, but by that time the flag was down. I understand that neighbors don’t want to come foward by name, because maga psychotics are real, but why didn’t media follow up?

    Supposedly “the court” knew about it. What about any ethical judges on the supreme court objecting publicly, or at least leaking the dirt on sam “leaky” alito years ago before he started participating in cases he clearly should have recused himself from?

    Every SCOTUS judge, roberts especially, knew about this 3 years ago and allowed alito to roam free from any taint of reasonable impropriety over opinions related to Jan. 6. The man is a taint (sadly, SCOTUS has got at least 2) on the court and country.

    Even the “liberal” judges seem to get tribal when it comes to ethics. Shame.

  14. I’m more interested in what’s going on behind close doors. If he’s flying flags such as this then the stuff we don’t see has to be freaking bonkers.

  15. Why are Senate Dems doing literally nothing at all about this? The GOP would be all over this, for weeks, on EVERY. SINGLE. tv station literally everywhere.

    I hate to sound exasperated but WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE WE DOING HERE?

  19. Can someone explain what would be investigated here? The Supreme Court doesn’t have ethics rules it is supposed to follow, at least according to all the news on Clarence Thomas and his paid trips. It isn’t illegal, to my knowledge, for Supreme Court justices to have or express political beliefs. What would this do other than further confirm that Samuel Alito the human being is not someone that we like?

  20. Alito investigated his own behavior and has ruled he has done nothing wrong, and cannot be punished. Thomas, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Barrett agree.

  21. More lawfare?

    Ok, I guess, but it’s not working the way they thought it would.

  22. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.

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