Alito Refuses to Recuse: ‘My Wife Is Fond of Flying Flags’

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/samuel-alito-refuses-recuse-flags-1235029552/

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  3. Alito’s letter to Congress takes such a whiny and contemptuous tone. It’s unbearable reading. Embarrassing that this drivel was approved by what should be one of the greatest legal minds of our country.

  4. And Clarence Thomas’s wife is fond of fomenting insurrections! How delightful, they really should do lunch sometime!

  5. Take the Congress.

    Take the White House.

    Expand the court.

    Impeach the traitors.

    Its the only hope we have. Vote Blue.

  6. Alito announces support for a woman’s right to choose.. flags.

  7. Meanwhile Donald and his clowns call every other judge corrupt when they don’t even have a fraction of the appearance of bias as this dick bag

  8. Next week: Alito & Thomas wives to fill in, allowing Supreme court to finish drafting opinions while the men go on safari with Harlan Crow. Complaints dismissed as partisan sexism.

  10. He is flaunting the fact that he is above the law and accountable to no one.

  12. >

    author of the dobbs majority opinion has thoughts on a woman’s ability to make her own decisions

  13. These current Supreme Court justices will go down in history as the exact reason the supreme court lost all integrity.

  14. And any non-corrupt judge would know a compromised close family member is a reason for recusal, even for just the appearance of impropriety alone.

  15. Conservatives hate virtue signaling but love flying obscure flags to tell their neighbors what’s what.

  16. I mean, what’s the point of being corrupt if you can’t abuse your power?

  17. Ah yes, the trusty “*I’m not gay but my boyfriend is*” defense.

  18. At this point, these Supreme Court scumbags are just spitting in our faces.

  20. :: Nazi flag is flying::

    “Why are you flying a Nazi flag?”
    “That’s not a Nazi flag, my wife just likes red & black flags”

    This straw man is strong.

  22. Up next, Alito shows up in court in a MAGA hat. “My wife dresses me, and I fully support her freedom to do so.”

  23. “THESE AREN’T MY PANTS!”

    – Dumb guy on COPS or SCOTUS?

  24. Oh, how cute. See how he boils it down to nothing as if this is all a fucking joke?

    He’s a SCOTUS justice, but he acts like a child.

  25. alito is taking his cue from donald, just lie through his teeth, maga republicans don’t care.

  27. Alito is 74 years old, Thomas is 75 years old, Roberts is 70 years old. You let Trump win the next election, can guarantee a couple of these justices ‘retire’ and get replaced with young and most likely even worse Christo-fascist deplorables.

    Many many things are on the ballot in November, vote blue.

  29. So far, we’ve heard from him:

    “I didn’t do it…”

    “My wife did it…”

    “We didn’t do it…”

    “We didn’t know what the flags mean…”

    “My wife is fond of flags…”

    🤔🙄

  31. “And my wife likes planning coup d’état’s! Wanna go for a ride in my motorcoach?” – Clarence Thomas

  32. 9 justices, 18 year terms, one new justice appointed every two years to replace one retiring judge. No judge can serve more than one full term.

    For fuck sake this lifetime appointment bullshit DOES NOT accomplish what it was intended to accomplish. Move on from institutions that were built by men hundreds of years ago that couldn’t conceive of our way of life today.

  33. I wonder if this fondness for flags ever results in her flying a Biden flag, or a pride flag, or if it’s only MAGA and Christian Nationalist flags. Because I suspect it may not just be flags in general that she likes.

  35. Remember that these mother fuckers are just ridiculing us out in the open. There will never be consequences and they know and just throwing it in our faces. There isn’t a question as to what is happening in the “highest court in the land”. 9 unelected life time justices who are doing what the fuck they want without being checked.

  36. You cannot expect to shame someone who has none to begin with.

  37. He has no control or say over what kind of flag his wife flies, but has no problem telling every woman in America what reproductive rights she no longer has.

  38. You have to understand here, he’s not actually trying to insult our intelligence by offering an excuse he hopes we’ll believe. He’s not trying to fool anyone. What he’s really saying is *fuck you, I can do what I want. I can tell obvious lies and there’s nothing you can do to stop me.*

  39. 1) Justice Alito thinks it matters that he is asserting that his wife, not he, flew the flag this way. It does not. The appearance of impropriety exists. He is on THE SUPREME COURT. It is HIS house. I see no mitigating circumstance.

    2) As one of nine justices on the court, his absence does not prevent a ruling. His staunch refusal to safeguard the legitimacy of the Court’s rulings on J6 matters is, itself, problematic because it indicates that Alito has an interest in this case that goes beyond mere enthusiasm for applied jurisprudence.
    3) the flag flown at the beach house is not addressed and cannot be dismissed as easily. How did this flag even come into his posession?

  40. Hes just rubbing it in our faces now, knowing there isnt a fuckin thing that can be done.

  41. Do you remember when the standard was: “Not only shall the justice system not BE biased, moreover it should not APPEAR to be biased”? Boy those days are long gone…

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