Alito displayed a “stop the steal” symbol at his home

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://dnyuz.com/2024/05/16/at-justice-alitos-house-a-stop-the-steal-symbol-on-display/

How are Alito and Thomas still on the court?

They are appointed for life and only impeachment or death gets rid of them. I don't have a link but recall reading that Thomas said his lifetime appointment would be his revenge. Roberts is impotent as Chief Justice.

And this is why they should be held to a higher standard, including their spouses and children living at home. We require our service members and other federal employees to keep their noses clean with respect to their political actions. Supreme Court justices should be held to the same standard.

Court reform now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://dnyuz.com/2024/05/16/at-justice-alitos-house-a-stop-the-steal-symbol-on-display/

How are Alito and Thomas still on the court?

They are appointed for life and only impeachment or death gets rid of them. I don't have a link but recall reading that Thomas said his lifetime appointment would be his revenge. Roberts is impotent as Chief Justice.

And this is why they should be held to a higher standard, including their spouses and children living at home. We require our service members and other federal employees to keep their noses clean with respect to their political actions. Supreme Court justices should be held to the same standard.

Court reform now.

I am in complete agreement but the GOP wouldn't vote to impeach their cohorts!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Was the Pine Tree flag bad when BLM displayed it, or nah?

Ordinary private citizens aren’t held to judicial standards. There’s no requirement for construction workers or bus drivers or waitresses to be apolitical or to avoid the mere appearance of impropriety.

Isn't Alito's wife one of those private citizens?

Because she’s married to a Supreme Court justice, her house is also his house. Her income is also his income and must be reported. She’s not quite a private citizen, but not entirely bound by judicial standards. Fair or not, her activities can cast the appearance of impropriety on him.

You're nutz. She can do as she damn well pleases. She is a PRIVATE CITIZEN.

There is no nuance, regardless of how you would like to project your tyrannical wishes.

This is cut and dry. Got it? CUT AND DRY.

No it is not.

Alito should have recused. Full stop.

This is not hard for anyone with a brain.

You are a MAGA MORON.

No, you're just trying to tip the court, because you know this November it's curtains for you and all your ideological idiocy.

You are worse than a MAGA moron. You are a MAGA imbecile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was the Pine Tree flag bad when BLM displayed it, or nah?

Ordinary private citizens aren’t held to judicial standards. There’s no requirement for construction workers or bus drivers or waitresses to be apolitical or to avoid the mere appearance of impropriety.

Isn't Alito's wife one of those private citizens?

Because she’s married to a Supreme Court justice, her house is also his house. Her income is also his income and must be reported. She’s not quite a private citizen, but not entirely bound by judicial standards. Fair or not, her activities can cast the appearance of impropriety on him.

You're nutz. She can do as she damn well pleases. She is a PRIVATE CITIZEN.

There is no nuance, regardless of how you would like to project your tyrannical wishes.

This is cut and dry. Got it? CUT AND DRY.

You Republicans would go NUTS if Justice Jackson’s husband flew a Black Lives Matters flag. Or a Palestinian flag (and yes I know he’s Jewish). Admit it.

And yes I think it would be wrong for him to do that.

And even though I think the rainbow flag is neutral - it’s a joyful symbol of human rights and who doesn’t support those? - if Justice Jackson was going to be hearing a case involving gay rights it would be absolutely wrong for him to fly that at their home.

DP and no, I wouldn't go nuts if her husband flew any kind of flag that he wanted to fly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I commend Alito for taking the opportunity to teach the liberals who think history started when they were born a little about the history of this country.

The idea that he would fly a flag designed and used during the American Revolution helps our youth learn what they failed to learn in school.

In a letter dated October 20, 1775,[1][2] General Washington's secretary, Colonel Joseph Reed, suggested a "flag with a white ground and a tree in the middle, the motto AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN" be used for the ships Washington commissioned.[5] Two heavily armed American scows, or "floating batteries," launched on the Charles River in September 1775 had used the Pine Tree flag as an ensign; in his letter, Reed described the banner he proposed as "the flag of our floating batteries."[2][1] The six schooners commissioned by Congress beginning in October 1775 to intercept British ships entering Boston—the USS Hancock, Lee, Franklin, Harrison, Lynch, and Warren—used the Pine Tree flag.[2][1]
The following year, on April 29, 1776,[2][1] the Massachusetts Council established the flag of the state navy with a resolution stating: "...that the Colours be a white Flag, with a green Pine Tree, and the Inscription, 'An Appeal to Heaven'."[1][5][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Tree_Flag

The far right has been doing a lot of misappropriating of patriotic symbols - this one as one example, the Gadsden "Don't Tread On Me" flag as another - that one is particularly ironic as it was based on Benjamin Franklin's woodcut of a snake cut into 13 pieces, with the caption, "Join, or Die" calling for the need for a strong federal union. The exact opposite of the "shrink federal government down to nothing" loose bond and states' rights and sovereignty that the far right wants. That, and it was also first flown by the newly incorporated US Marines, which again is the opposite of state guards and the local militias that the far right loves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I commend Alito for taking the opportunity to teach the liberals who think history started when they were born a little about the history of this country.

The idea that he would fly a flag designed and used during the American Revolution helps our youth learn what they failed to learn in school.

In a letter dated October 20, 1775,[1][2] General Washington's secretary, Colonel Joseph Reed, suggested a "flag with a white ground and a tree in the middle, the motto AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN" be used for the ships Washington commissioned.[5] Two heavily armed American scows, or "floating batteries," launched on the Charles River in September 1775 had used the Pine Tree flag as an ensign; in his letter, Reed described the banner he proposed as "the flag of our floating batteries."[2][1] The six schooners commissioned by Congress beginning in October 1775 to intercept British ships entering Boston—the USS Hancock, Lee, Franklin, Harrison, Lynch, and Warren—used the Pine Tree flag.[2][1]
The following year, on April 29, 1776,[2][1] the Massachusetts Council established the flag of the state navy with a resolution stating: "...that the Colours be a white Flag, with a green Pine Tree, and the Inscription, 'An Appeal to Heaven'."[1][5][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Tree_Flag

The far right has been doing a lot of misappropriating of patriotic symbols - this one as one example, the Gadsden "Don't Tread On Me" flag as another - that one is particularly ironic as it was based on Benjamin Franklin's woodcut of a snake cut into 13 pieces, with the caption, "Join, or Die" calling for the need for a strong federal union. The exact opposite of the "shrink federal government down to nothing" loose bond and states' rights and sovereignty that the far right wants. That, and it was also first flown by the newly incorporated US Marines, which again is the opposite of state guards and the local militias that the far right loves.

The far Left has done its share of co-opting historical symbols as well, including flags. Look into the origins of the rainbow flag, which didn't become an LGBTQ symbol until 1978.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I commend Alito for taking the opportunity to teach the liberals who think history started when they were born a little about the history of this country.

The idea that he would fly a flag designed and used during the American Revolution helps our youth learn what they failed to learn in school.

In a letter dated October 20, 1775,[1][2] General Washington's secretary, Colonel Joseph Reed, suggested a "flag with a white ground and a tree in the middle, the motto AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN" be used for the ships Washington commissioned.[5] Two heavily armed American scows, or "floating batteries," launched on the Charles River in September 1775 had used the Pine Tree flag as an ensign; in his letter, Reed described the banner he proposed as "the flag of our floating batteries."[2][1] The six schooners commissioned by Congress beginning in October 1775 to intercept British ships entering Boston—the USS Hancock, Lee, Franklin, Harrison, Lynch, and Warren—used the Pine Tree flag.[2][1]
The following year, on April 29, 1776,[2][1] the Massachusetts Council established the flag of the state navy with a resolution stating: "...that the Colours be a white Flag, with a green Pine Tree, and the Inscription, 'An Appeal to Heaven'."[1][5][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Tree_Flag

The far right has been doing a lot of misappropriating of patriotic symbols - this one as one example, the Gadsden "Don't Tread On Me" flag as another - that one is particularly ironic as it was based on Benjamin Franklin's woodcut of a snake cut into 13 pieces, with the caption, "Join, or Die" calling for the need for a strong federal union. The exact opposite of the "shrink federal government down to nothing" loose bond and states' rights and sovereignty that the far right wants. That, and it was also first flown by the newly incorporated US Marines, which again is the opposite of state guards and the local militias that the far right loves.

The far Left has done its share of co-opting historical symbols as well, including flags. Look into the origins of the rainbow flag, which didn't become an LGBTQ symbol until 1978.

And yet it's a symbol of love. Not hate. Wonderful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I commend Alito for taking the opportunity to teach the liberals who think history started when they were born a little about the history of this country.

The idea that he would fly a flag designed and used during the American Revolution helps our youth learn what they failed to learn in school.

In a letter dated October 20, 1775,[1][2] General Washington's secretary, Colonel Joseph Reed, suggested a "flag with a white ground and a tree in the middle, the motto AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN" be used for the ships Washington commissioned.[5] Two heavily armed American scows, or "floating batteries," launched on the Charles River in September 1775 had used the Pine Tree flag as an ensign; in his letter, Reed described the banner he proposed as "the flag of our floating batteries."[2][1] The six schooners commissioned by Congress beginning in October 1775 to intercept British ships entering Boston—the USS Hancock, Lee, Franklin, Harrison, Lynch, and Warren—used the Pine Tree flag.[2][1]
The following year, on April 29, 1776,[2][1] the Massachusetts Council established the flag of the state navy with a resolution stating: "...that the Colours be a white Flag, with a green Pine Tree, and the Inscription, 'An Appeal to Heaven'."[1][5][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Tree_Flag

The far right has been doing a lot of misappropriating of patriotic symbols - this one as one example, the Gadsden "Don't Tread On Me" flag as another - that one is particularly ironic as it was based on Benjamin Franklin's woodcut of a snake cut into 13 pieces, with the caption, "Join, or Die" calling for the need for a strong federal union. The exact opposite of the "shrink federal government down to nothing" loose bond and states' rights and sovereignty that the far right wants. That, and it was also first flown by the newly incorporated US Marines, which again is the opposite of state guards and the local militias that the far right loves.

The far Left has done its share of co-opting historical symbols as well, including flags. Look into the origins of the rainbow flag, which didn't become an LGBTQ symbol until 1978.

And yet it's a symbol of love. Not hate. Wonderful.

Depends on who you ask. For some it has become a symbol of an overly-aggressive political agenda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was the Pine Tree flag bad when BLM displayed it, or nah?

Ordinary private citizens aren’t held to judicial standards. There’s no requirement for construction workers or bus drivers or waitresses to be apolitical or to avoid the mere appearance of impropriety.

Isn't Alito's wife one of those private citizens?

Because she’s married to a Supreme Court justice, her house is also his house. Her income is also his income and must be reported. She’s not quite a private citizen, but not entirely bound by judicial standards. Fair or not, her activities can cast the appearance of impropriety on him.

You're nutz. She can do as she damn well pleases. She is a PRIVATE CITIZEN.

There is no nuance, regardless of how you would like to project your tyrannical wishes.

This is cut and dry. Got it? CUT AND DRY.

When she made a political statement at her residence, she was also making a political statement at a SUPREME COURT JUSTICE’S RESIDENCE. She did this at Justice Alito’s house. She had HIM living under that flag. The flags flown at HIS home reflect on HIM. She’s free to do whatever she wants, and OTHER PEOPLE ARE FREE TO CRITICIZE THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY ON JUSTICE ALITO’S PART.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was the Pine Tree flag bad when BLM displayed it, or nah?

Ordinary private citizens aren’t held to judicial standards. There’s no requirement for construction workers or bus drivers or waitresses to be apolitical or to avoid the mere appearance of impropriety.

Isn't Alito's wife one of those private citizens?

Because she’s married to a Supreme Court justice, her house is also his house. Her income is also his income and must be reported. She’s not quite a private citizen, but not entirely bound by judicial standards. Fair or not, her activities can cast the appearance of impropriety on him.

You're nutz. She can do as she damn well pleases. She is a PRIVATE CITIZEN.

There is no nuance, regardless of how you would like to project your tyrannical wishes.

This is cut and dry. Got it? CUT AND DRY.

When she made a political statement at her residence, she was also making a political statement at a SUPREME COURT JUSTICE’S RESIDENCE. She did this at Justice Alito’s house. She had HIM living under that flag. The flags flown at HIS home reflect on HIM. She’s free to do whatever she wants, and OTHER PEOPLE ARE FREE TO CRITICIZE THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY ON JUSTICE ALITO’S PART.

DP. Just because you think it creates an appearance of impropriety on the part of Justice Alito, doesn't mean that he must recuse himself. This is why there are objective rules in place to avoid subjective judgments. First, you're assuming her actions can and should be imputed to him. Strike one. Second, you're assuming she made a political statement. Strike two. Three, you're assuming that her political statement was supporting an "insurrection" or other inappropriate activity. You're out.

Also, let us know if you're willing to apply your "rules" to Democratic politicians, appointees, and judges. Please tell us what those rules are and what the objective criteria are for following them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I commend Alito for taking the opportunity to teach the liberals who think history started when they were born a little about the history of this country.

The idea that he would fly a flag designed and used during the American Revolution helps our youth learn what they failed to learn in school.

In a letter dated October 20, 1775,[1][2] General Washington's secretary, Colonel Joseph Reed, suggested a "flag with a white ground and a tree in the middle, the motto AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN" be used for the ships Washington commissioned.[5] Two heavily armed American scows, or "floating batteries," launched on the Charles River in September 1775 had used the Pine Tree flag as an ensign; in his letter, Reed described the banner he proposed as "the flag of our floating batteries."[2][1] The six schooners commissioned by Congress beginning in October 1775 to intercept British ships entering Boston—the USS Hancock, Lee, Franklin, Harrison, Lynch, and Warren—used the Pine Tree flag.[2][1]
The following year, on April 29, 1776,[2][1] the Massachusetts Council established the flag of the state navy with a resolution stating: "...that the Colours be a white Flag, with a green Pine Tree, and the Inscription, 'An Appeal to Heaven'."[1][5][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Tree_Flag

The far right has been doing a lot of misappropriating of patriotic symbols - this one as one example, the Gadsden "Don't Tread On Me" flag as another - that one is particularly ironic as it was based on Benjamin Franklin's woodcut of a snake cut into 13 pieces, with the caption, "Join, or Die" calling for the need for a strong federal union. The exact opposite of the "shrink federal government down to nothing" loose bond and states' rights and sovereignty that the far right wants. That, and it was also first flown by the newly incorporated US Marines, which again is the opposite of state guards and the local militias that the far right loves.

The far Left has done its share of co-opting historical symbols as well, including flags. Look into the origins of the rainbow flag, which didn't become an LGBTQ symbol until 1978.

“The origins” of the rainbow flag? Its origins were hippies and gay rights. That’s not co-opted.

Are you talking about gay people using the pink triangle that was originally used by the Nazis? Yes, gay people used that on purpose, like when Black people use the N word: to take away its power.

Whereas right wing extremists like Alito twist the original meaning of flags to make it their own and provide cover.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was the Pine Tree flag bad when BLM displayed it, or nah?

Ordinary private citizens aren’t held to judicial standards. There’s no requirement for construction workers or bus drivers or waitresses to be apolitical or to avoid the mere appearance of impropriety.

Isn't Alito's wife one of those private citizens?

Because she’s married to a Supreme Court justice, her house is also his house. Her income is also his income and must be reported. She’s not quite a private citizen, but not entirely bound by judicial standards. Fair or not, her activities can cast the appearance of impropriety on him.

You're nutz. She can do as she damn well pleases. She is a PRIVATE CITIZEN.

There is no nuance, regardless of how you would like to project your tyrannical wishes.

This is cut and dry. Got it? CUT AND DRY.

When she made a political statement at her residence, she was also making a political statement at a SUPREME COURT JUSTICE’S RESIDENCE. She did this at Justice Alito’s house. She had HIM living under that flag. The flags flown at HIS home reflect on HIM. She’s free to do whatever she wants, and OTHER PEOPLE ARE FREE TO CRITICIZE THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY ON JUSTICE ALITO’S PART.

DP. Just because you think it creates an appearance of impropriety on the part of Justice Alito, doesn't mean that he must recuse himself. This is why there are objective rules in place to avoid subjective judgments. First, you're assuming her actions can and should be imputed to him. Strike one. Second, you're assuming she made a political statement. Strike two. Three, you're assuming that her political statement was supporting an "insurrection" or other inappropriate activity. You're out.

Also, let us know if you're willing to apply your "rules" to Democratic politicians, appointees, and judges. Please tell us what those rules are and what the objective criteria are for following them.

DP I’m willing I apply the rules that I as a fed have been regarding the appearance of violating ethics to all politicians and judges regardless of party. Basically if it looks like the ethical rules are being broken don’t do it.

If you think it would have been wrong for Alito to have flown the flag himself then it’s not advisable for the flag to be flown on his property. Because no one can tell who actually hoisted it up the flag pole and no, Alito’s word is not good enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was Alito picked on in school?

I don’t know but his sister is also a really odd person. I feel like something was off in that house. And I say that as someone from a very very Catholic household. It’s not about the religion. They is something off there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was the Pine Tree flag bad when BLM displayed it, or nah?

Ordinary private citizens aren’t held to judicial standards. There’s no requirement for construction workers or bus drivers or waitresses to be apolitical or to avoid the mere appearance of impropriety.

Isn't Alito's wife one of those private citizens?

Because she’s married to a Supreme Court justice, her house is also his house. Her income is also his income and must be reported. She’s not quite a private citizen, but not entirely bound by judicial standards. Fair or not, her activities can cast the appearance of impropriety on him.

You're nutz. She can do as she damn well pleases. She is a PRIVATE CITIZEN.

There is no nuance, regardless of how you would like to project your tyrannical wishes.

This is cut and dry. Got it? CUT AND DRY.

When she made a political statement at her residence, she was also making a political statement at a SUPREME COURT JUSTICE’S RESIDENCE. She did this at Justice Alito’s house. She had HIM living under that flag. The flags flown at HIS home reflect on HIM. She’s free to do whatever she wants, and OTHER PEOPLE ARE FREE TO CRITICIZE THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY ON JUSTICE ALITO’S PART.

DP. Just because you think it creates an appearance of impropriety on the part of Justice Alito, doesn't mean that he must recuse himself. This is why there are objective rules in place to avoid subjective judgments. First, you're assuming her actions can and should be imputed to him. Strike one. Second, you're assuming she made a political statement. Strike two. Three, you're assuming that her political statement was supporting an "insurrection" or other inappropriate activity. You're out.

Also, let us know if you're willing to apply your "rules" to Democratic politicians, appointees, and judges. Please tell us what those rules are and what the objective criteria are for following them.

DP I’m willing I apply the rules that I as a fed have been regarding the appearance of violating ethics to all politicians and judges regardless of party. Basically if it looks like the ethical rules are being broken don’t do it.

If you think it would have been wrong for Alito to have flown the flag himself then it’s not advisable for the flag to be flown on his property. Because no one can tell who actually hoisted it up the flag pole and no, Alito’s word is not good enough.

+1

Plus: he flew the Appeal to Heaven flag for weeks at a minimum. He can’t pin that one on his wife.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I commend Alito for taking the opportunity to teach the liberals who think history started when they were born a little about the history of this country.

The idea that he would fly a flag designed and used during the American Revolution helps our youth learn what they failed to learn in school.

In a letter dated October 20, 1775,[1][2] General Washington's secretary, Colonel Joseph Reed, suggested a "flag with a white ground and a tree in the middle, the motto AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN" be used for the ships Washington commissioned.[5] Two heavily armed American scows, or "floating batteries," launched on the Charles River in September 1775 had used the Pine Tree flag as an ensign; in his letter, Reed described the banner he proposed as "the flag of our floating batteries."[2][1] The six schooners commissioned by Congress beginning in October 1775 to intercept British ships entering Boston—the USS Hancock, Lee, Franklin, Harrison, Lynch, and Warren—used the Pine Tree flag.[2][1]
The following year, on April 29, 1776,[2][1] the Massachusetts Council established the flag of the state navy with a resolution stating: "...that the Colours be a white Flag, with a green Pine Tree, and the Inscription, 'An Appeal to Heaven'."[1][5][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Tree_Flag

The far right has been doing a lot of misappropriating of patriotic symbols - this one as one example, the Gadsden "Don't Tread On Me" flag as another - that one is particularly ironic as it was based on Benjamin Franklin's woodcut of a snake cut into 13 pieces, with the caption, "Join, or Die" calling for the need for a strong federal union. The exact opposite of the "shrink federal government down to nothing" loose bond and states' rights and sovereignty that the far right wants. That, and it was also first flown by the newly incorporated US Marines, which again is the opposite of state guards and the local militias that the far right loves.

The far Left has done its share of co-opting historical symbols as well, including flags. Look into the origins of the rainbow flag, which didn't become an LGBTQ symbol until 1978.

“The origins” of the rainbow flag? Its origins were hippies and gay rights. That’s not co-opted.

Are you talking about gay people using the pink triangle that was originally used by the Nazis? Yes, gay people used that on purpose, like when Black people use the N word: to take away its power.

Whereas right wing extremists like Alito twist the original meaning of flags to make it their own and provide cover.

Actually no, the pink triangle was rejected by Gilbert Baker (adopter of the pride flag in 1978) because of its dark past. Rainbow flags have been used by numerous societies throughout history, including devout Christians (i.e. the "Rainbow Covenant"). Ironically, the rainbow flag also has Revolutionary War connections:

In the 18th century, American Revolutionary War writer Thomas Paine proposed that a rainbow flag be used as a maritime flag to signify neutral ships in time of war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag

The recent White House display of the rainbow flag that was an alleged flag code violation (it likely wasn't) has sparked similar outrage on the Right.