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

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Roberts is just as bad as the rest of the Republican justices.

Yes he is. He is presiding over the demise of an important institution. He should be ashamed.

He is immune to shame.

He will be annoyed that anyone noticed.

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I bet alito is grateful that Trump was convicted as it’s knocked the story of his bias and unfitness for the bench off the front pages.

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Anonymous wrote:I bet alito is grateful that Trump was convicted as it’s knocked the story of his bias and unfitness for the bench off the front pages.

The downside for Alito is that the Trump debacle lessens the chances of a conservative judge replacing Alito.

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Anonymous wrote:I bet alito is grateful that Trump was convicted as it’s knocked the story of his bias and unfitness for the bench off the front pages.

Except all the dummies flying upside down flags now reminding people of his actions.

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Anonymous wrote:I bet alito is grateful that Trump was convicted as it’s knocked the story of his bias and unfitness for the bench off the front pages.

Except all the dummies flying upside down flags now reminding people of his actions.

The funny thing - not actually funny - is that for most of my life, I've associated the regular flag with Republicans. Now I don't. Now if I see a normal flag, I assume it's a normie Democrat, honestly. I think the Republicans have gone so crazy that they're only going to fly the upside flag anymore. Along with w Brandon flag or some other insane thing.

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Alito has now become the face of the upside-down flag. Yes, it was a thing before, but now it's really been brought to the forefront of the national consciousness. He's going to be remembered for it.

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Anonymous wrote:I bet alito is grateful that Trump was convicted as it’s knocked the story of his bias and unfitness for the bench off the front pages.

Except all the dummies flying upside down flags now reminding people of his actions.

This is very true.

Imagine getting to the Supreme Court, and what you’ll be remembered for is being a jerk during a SOTU, being terrible at law and being a Christian nationalist.

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Anonymous wrote:I bet alito is grateful that Trump was convicted as it’s knocked the story of his bias and unfitness for the bench off the front pages.

Except all the dummies flying upside down flags now reminding people of his actions.

This is very true.

Imagine getting to the Supreme Court, and what you’ll be remembered for is being a jerk during a SOTU, being terrible at law and being a Christian nationalist.

And leaking the Roe decision

You'd fire this guy if he were an employee at a Dunkin Donuts you managed.

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Anonymous wrote:I bet alito is grateful that Trump was convicted as it’s knocked the story of his bias and unfitness for the bench off the front pages.

Except all the dummies flying upside down flags now reminding people of his actions.

This is very true.

Imagine getting to the Supreme Court, and what you’ll be remembered for is being a jerk during a SOTU, being terrible at law and being a Christian nationalist.

And leaking the Roe decision

You'd fire this guy if he were an employee at a Dunkin Donuts you managed.

We don’t know that one for sure, that one’s only “mostly likely.”

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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?

Life appointments!

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Anonymous wrote:Here is the entire letter. Sorry, liberals. He is not recusing and cannot be forced to do so.

Why “sorry liberals”?

If you are an American and a patriot, you too should consider the damage that Alito is doing to SCOTUS. That damage is ultimately worse for the United States than for “liberals”. You too should desire a SCOTUS that is above reproach and the envy of the world. Our rule of law has made us a global force to be reckoned with.

Alito is mocking the country and everything the United States stands for.

If you are an American, shame on you for not loving your country.

LOL the hysteria over the actions of a judge’s wife that even the Post saw as a non story three years ago.

And yet you GOPers have been hysterical over a judge's daughter who doesn't even live with him.

Explain yourselves.

DP. Who/what on earth are you still babbling about? You've already posted about this and it's entirely off-topic. And as usual, you're speaking to everyone as if they themselves are "guilty" of whatever it is you're obsessing over. Stick to the topic of this thread.

Actually, that was an astute point. Many MAGA types think Judge Merchan can’t be impartial because of his daughter’s political connections, but also think it’s ridiculous for anyone to suggest that Justice Alito should recuse himself from January 6th cases because his wife has a bad habit of flying flags that were co-opted by the insurrectionists.

New York law 100.3 e(1)d(iii) states “a judge shall disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned, including but not limited to instances where the judge knows that the judge or the judge’s spouse, or a person known by the judge to be within the sixth degree of relationship to either of them, or the spouse of such a person has an interest that could be substantially affected by the proceeding.”

New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics, Opinion 673 (1995)(“Whether a judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned is necessarily a question of fact in each case. Even if the judge believes that he or she can be impartial, the judge should recuse himself or herself if an objective, disinterested observer could reasonably question the judge’s impartiality.”).

There is a significant factual difference between Judge Merchan and Justice Alito. The fact that the Washington Post passed on the story 3+ years ago is indicative that an objective, disinterested observer would not question Justice Alito's impartiality. The "Appeal to Heaven" flag is a legal flag and until recently flew at the San Francisco Civic Center along with the Gasden Flag (Don't Tread on Me).

Ah the significant factual difference in Republicans' eyes is that Alito is a MAGA Republican and Merchan is liberal. Come on, confess - THAT is the difference in your eyes. You think when a Republican does it, there's no problem.

I'm waiting for you to look at the facts. Instead, you skipped right to political affiliation. Political affiliation - in and of itself - is not enough. There are far more facts that call into question Judge Merchan's impartiality (even assuming we can apply NY ethics rules to a Supreme Court Justice, which we can't).

That is objectivity.

You only need to read Alito’s decisions to know he is not capable of being impartial.

And what I hear you are saying is the SCOTUS does not have strict ethics rules. Agreed. They have none.

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Either Alito is slow and he misrepresents earlier opinions to which he refers or he has no judicial impartiality and makes up his mind, then twists the previous opinions to suit what he thinks. Neither is good.

But we know from him flying the Christian nationalist flag that he is not faithful to America.

Talk to the San Fran city council which flew that flag for sixty years.

Hello, welcome to the thread. This has been covered. San Francisco no longer flies the flag that Alito (and several other Republicans) proudly fly because it has been co-opted by the Christian nationalist movement, aka, the GOP.

They only removed it when the Alito controversy happened. It's just not true that the flag was co-opted by the GOP. People decided to make an issue out of nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:“I am with you so far, Justice Alito. I applaud your recognition of a woman’s right to oversee her own flags on her own property without the influence or governance of a man.
“My wife’s reasons for flying the flag are not relevant for present purposes,” he wrote.
I’m glad you made this point, Justice Alito. Sometimes women have deeply personal reasons for needing to fly a flag, and those reasons are not our, nor the government’s, business.
“My wife is a private citizen.”
Absolutely! She is a private citizen! Here and now, I stand with Justice Samuel Alito in being horrified that lawmakers would presume to involve themselves in decisions that should be made between a woman and her flag-maker.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2024/05/29/samuel-alito-wife-flag-letter/

This is well-done. But the most liked comment should win a prize:

If he was so opposed to flag flying, maybe he should have been more careful about providing the pole.

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Anonymous wrote:“I am with you so far, Justice Alito. I applaud your recognition of a woman’s right to oversee her own flags on her own property without the influence or governance of a man.
“My wife’s reasons for flying the flag are not relevant for present purposes,” he wrote.
I’m glad you made this point, Justice Alito. Sometimes women have deeply personal reasons for needing to fly a flag, and those reasons are not our, nor the government’s, business.
“My wife is a private citizen.”
Absolutely! She is a private citizen! Here and now, I stand with Justice Samuel Alito in being horrified that lawmakers would presume to involve themselves in decisions that should be made between a woman and her flag-maker.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2024/05/29/samuel-alito-wife-flag-letter/

This is well-done. But the most liked comment should win a prize:

If he was so opposed to flag flying, maybe he should have been more careful about providing the pole.

These are all good. I also liked the one about the irony of Alito being able to control the bodies of women across America but being unable to control his wife's choice of house decor.

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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?

Life appointments!

And zero enforcement of a weak ethics code that they only adopted under duress after public outcry.

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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?

Life appointments!

That needs to end. Maybe Justices should be limited to 20 years or 75 years of age, whichever comes first.