The controversy over the many “messaging” flags the Alitos fly hits the Supreme Court hard.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife, Martha-Ann, visit the casket of the Rev. Billy Graham at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington on Feb. 28, 2018. An upside-down American flag was displayed outside of Alito’s home Jan. 17, 2021, days after former President Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, The New York Times reported. It’s a symbol associated with Trump’s false claims of election fraud. “It was briefly placed by Mrs.
Since my Boy Scout days, I have known the upside-down flag to be an international signal of distress. In the Jan. 6 uprising, those sympathetic to the bid to keep Donald Trump in office flew the flag upside down to show their support. For the rest of us, it became a symbol of how the nation was in distress based on Trump’s lie that the election had been stolen by President Joe Biden.
He also reportedly told Fox News’ Shannon Bream that the neighbor had blamed his wife for the Capitol riot, yet still did not comment on the intended meaning of the display. With this latest series of highly questionable actions by the most conservative member of the court, Durbin has called for the immediate passage in Congress of the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency, or SCERT, Act, which Durbin’s Judiciary Committee advanced last July.
Small wonder. We, the public, have seen a series of high-profile ethical lapses, beginning with the unprecedented leak of Alito’s Dobbs opinion, which the court later approved and which overturned the constitutional right to abortion. An investigation failed to find the leaker.
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