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

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Flying the U.S. flag upside down is not a “stop the steal” symbol; it was originally used by ships in distress and later came to mean any general political protest.

You expect us to believe that the two flags associated with 2020 election denialism and the Christo-MAGA movement were meant by the Alitos to signify previous, historical interpretations? REALLY?

You think we're as dumb as you are???



You know what I think? I think Ms. Alito is in cognitive decline and is losing control over her emotions and sense of proportionality, and this is why, after decades of relative decorum (even though she's a stalwart and outspoken ultra-conservative), she suddenly finds herself in the spotlight, for verbal attacks on people she perceives as political enemies, and irrational behavior with flags.

And you know what a Supreme Court Justice is supposed to do when his spouse behaves like that? He should recuse from cases that his spouse has tainted with her demented actions. And seriously consider a dignified retirement before she does anything worse.

Naw. She just has Big Ginni Energy. Traitor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh no Alito's timeline broke LOL
Just published: Mrs. Alito's conflict with her neighbors in Virginia escalated so much that the neighbors called the police. But that final incident, which Justice Alito said helped spur his wife to raise the upside-down flag, happened a month after the flag was up.

Yup. Supreme Court Justice Samual Alito's neighbors say his wife mounted a campaign of harassment that saw her spitting at their car and scaring them enough to call the cops, according to a new report from the New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/us/justice-alito-neighbors-stop-steal-flag.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oh no Alito's timeline broke LOL
Just published: Mrs. Alito's conflict with her neighbors in Virginia escalated so much that the neighbors called the police. But that final incident, which Justice Alito said helped spur his wife to raise the upside-down flag, happened a month after the flag was up.

Yup. Supreme Court Justice Samual Alito's neighbors say his wife mounted a campaign of harassment that saw her spitting at their car and scaring them enough to call the cops, according to a new report from the New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/us/justice-alito-neighbors-stop-steal-flag.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

What a miserable bi$$h

[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.

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. No you are out. In left f-in field. All of those judgments are correct. Alito should know better. Alito is not fit to serve on a single case that comes anywhere near Jan 6. (Or anything else, if we are being real.)

And BTW, most of us don't have different rules based on political party. The two sets of rules, one for you and one for everyone else, that's a GOP thing. Different rules and accuse the other side of what you yourself are doing. Typical GOP projection. You RWNJs and the GOP like to trot out your "let us know if this applies to Dems" BS when we catch your politicians or judges in their lies, their deceit, their rule-breaking. But we already do expect the rules to apply to everyone. You don't like that we are looking at YOU.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oh no Alito's timeline broke LOL
Just published: Mrs. Alito's conflict with her neighbors in Virginia escalated so much that the neighbors called the police. But that final incident, which Justice Alito said helped spur his wife to raise the upside-down flag, happened a month after the flag was up.

Yup. Supreme Court Justice Samual Alito's neighbors say his wife mounted a campaign of harassment that saw her spitting at their car and scaring them enough to call the cops, according to a new report from the New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/us/justice-alito-neighbors-stop-steal-flag.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The police in Fairfax County, Va., received an unusual phone call on Feb. 15, 2021. A young couple claimed they were being harassed by the wife of a Supreme Court justice.
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“Somebody in a position of authority needs to talk to her and make her stop,” said the 36-year-old man making the complaint, according to a recording of the call reviewed by The New York Times. The officer on the line responded that there was little the police could do: Yelling was not a crime.

The couple placed the call after a series of encounters with Martha-Ann Alito, wife of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., that had gone from uneasy to ugly. That day, Emily Baden, whose boyfriend (now husband) contacted the police, had traded accusations with Mrs. Alito, who lived down the street. In a recent interview, Ms. Baden admitted to calling her a lewd epithet.

The clash between the wife of a conservative Supreme Court justice and the couple, who were in their 30s, liberal and proud of it, played out over months on a bucolic block in Alexandria. It was the kind of shouting match among private citizens, at the height of tensions over the 2020 election, that might have happened in any mixed political community in America. But three years later, that neighborhood spat — which both sides said began over an anti-Trump sign — has taken on far greater proportions.

[Anonymous]

I didn't even know there was such a thing as a Christian nationalist flag. Really worrying that hangs over the house of a Supreme Court justice in a country founded on the principles of separation of church and state.

[Anonymous]

The WaPo really failed to do their job on this story.

Nine days after The New York Times reported about the political symbolism of an upside-down American flag that flew at U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s home, the Washington Post acknowledged it had the same story more than three years ago and decided not to publish it.

Alito has said that his wife, Martha-Ann Alito, raised the flag as part of a dispute with neighbors who had placed “personally insulting” yard signs directed at them. Judges traditionally avoid partisan symbols to maintain the appearance of neutrality in political disputes that may come before them.

Nowhere in the story, however, does the Post say that its decision more than three years ago was wrong, and a spokesperson on Tuesday declined to elaborate.

Kathleen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin, said it was a bad call. And, she added, if she were at the Post she would have argued for the paper to be more forthcoming.

While Martha-Ann Alito has the right to her own opinions, a flag like that shouldn’t be on display outside the home of a U.S. Supreme Court justice, Culver said. “It’s a flag that flies in the face of the neutrality that the Supreme Court is supposed to be observing,” she said.

When a since-retired Post reporter visited the Alito home in January 2021, after the flag had been taken down, Martha-Ann Alito pointed out that an upside-down flag has long been interpreted as a symbol of distress, the newspaper said.

A FORMER SENIOR EDITOR SAYS IT WAS HIS CALL
The publication Semafor reported that Cameron Barr, then the Post’s senior managing editor, said he took responsibility for the decision. He said he suggested the newspaper write about the neighborhood dispute, with the flag as one element. But that wasn’t done and Barr expressed regret for not pushing harder for it. Barr left the Post in 2023.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't even know there was such a thing as a Christian nationalist flag. Really worrying that hangs over the house of a Supreme Court justice in a country founded on the principles of separation of church and state.

https://apnews.com/article/alito-supreme-court-flags-history-symbol-protest-a5415aeba90e21a86a50f8489fc54b7a

There are a few different reasons people fly “Appeal to Heaven” flags today, said Jared Holt, a senior analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based think tank that tracks online hate, disinformation and extremism.

Some fans of it identify with a “patriot” movement that obsesses over the Founding Fathers and the American Revolution, he said. Others adhere to a Christian nationalist worldview that seeks to elevate Christianity in public life.

“It’s not abundantly clear which of those reasons would be accurate” in this situation, Holt said. But he called the display outside Alito’s home “alarming,” saying those who do fly the flag are often advocating for “more intolerant and restrictive forms of government aligned with a specific religious philosophy.”

The “Appeal to Heaven” flag was among several banners carried by the Jan. 6 rioters, who also favored religious banners symbolizing the white Christian nationalist movement., the Confederate flag and the yellow Gadsden flag, with its rattlesnake and “Don’t Tread on Me” message, said Bradley Onishi, author of “Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism.”

“That’s the family,” he said.

[Anonymous]

The same day, a Washington Post reporter who had heard about the inverted flag arrived to ask about it. Mrs. Alito looked upset, yelled that the flag was a “signal of distress,” then shouted about a dispute with neighbors, according to an article published on Saturday.

The conflict then seemed to quiet down. But on Feb. 15, the couple were pulling in trash bins when the Alitos, who seemed to be on a stroll, appeared. Mrs. Alito addressed the pair by name, used an expletive and called them “fascists,” the couple told The Times and said in texts at the time. Justice Alito remained silent, they added. The Alitos began to walk away.

That was when Emily Baden snapped, she said. She does not remember her precise words, but recalls something like this: How dare you behave this way. You’ve been harassing us, over signs. You represent the highest court in the land. Shame on you.

[Anonymous]

Is there anything anyone can do to discipline Alito? I don't think there is unfortunately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there anything anyone can do to discipline Alito? I don't think there is unfortunately.

Nope. No way to force Roberts to do his job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't even know there was such a thing as a Christian nationalist flag. Really worrying that hangs over the house of a Supreme Court justice in a country founded on the principles of separation of church and state.

Several of these “mainstream Republicans” fly it outside their offices in DC. When we say that the whole of the GOP is compromised, we mean it. Anyone willing to stay in the party at this point tacitly or completely endorses some version of destroying the US Government and democracy with something else.

That traitor douchebag flew a Christian nationalist flag over his beach house for weeks. He’s out and proud. There is no defense and if the GOP weren’t supportive of these wretched politics, he’d be crap-canned. He’s still there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there anything anyone can do to discipline Alito? I don't think there is unfortunately.

Voting blue in significant enough numbers that we can actually reform the court. Short of that… no, there’s nothing. The GOP is happy as a clam for their fascists to be in places of power.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is there anything anyone can do to discipline Alito? I don't think there is unfortunately.

Voting blue in significant enough numbers that we can actually reform the court. Short of that… no, there’s nothing. The GOP is happy as a clam for their fascists to be in places of power.

+1. Court reform now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is there anything anyone can do to discipline Alito? I don't think there is unfortunately.

Voting blue in significant enough numbers that we can actually reform the court. Short of that… no, there’s nothing. The GOP is happy as a clam for their fascists to be in places of power.

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