Kind of laughing that I turned down a private tour to be sure there was no optic of a perk or benefit and my spouse turned down a fed work car because it had so many rules all it could do was get him in trouble but so many of you think it’s totally cool for someone on the highest court who is supposed to be apolitical, thoughtful, and impartial to hang political flags. Some of you have never met a fed and it shows.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He has a right to free speech because, get this, Supreme Court justices are US citizens.

It’s his private property.

He is a US Supreme Court Judge.
He is supposed to be impartial.
He is not supposed to flout the rules and display partisan symbols, particularly when he is ruling on cases related to that very issue he has so clearly demonstrated he is not impartial at all, but has a very clear bias in favor of the insurrectionists.

If he wants to express his political views in public, he should step down from the SCOTUS. Until then, he needs to keep his views private, or recuse himself from cases where he has no business claiming impartiality. By flying flags supporting the January 6 uprising, Judge Alito demonstrates in full view of the public that he is not impartial, and therefore cannot be on the SCOTUS.

Justices do not lose their First Amendment rights just because they sit on the Supreme Court. Also, you're making a significant assumption about the meaning of the flags and the intent in their display. Where is your objective evidence that Justice Alito or his wife support an overthrow of the U.S. Government?

You guys never understand the first amendment or anything about federal employees. Truly, if you’re not a Russian troll, you must be writing from the middle of nowhere and have never left your town or interacted with anyone outside your family.

This. You have to wonder if these people ever leave their homes. Do they just spend their days going down weird rabbit holes? They are not tethered to reality.

They don't lose their First Amendment rights. They are constrained by ethics rules.

If the standard being applied to Justice Alito (and it's his wife, not him) is the correct one, why hasn't Judge Chutkin in the D.C. case recused herself? Or perhaps Alvin Bragg and Letitia James in New York? Those seem to be far more obvious situations than the one being levied against Justice Alito.

Pp here. I was referring to posters like you. You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. You’re just grabbing random names of judges and prosecutors who serve in completely different capacities and are stringing them together because you perceive they are being “unfair” to Trump. Please please please think!

DP
Both Leticia James and Alvin Bragg ran on “getting Trump.” Neither of them ran on going after any specific crime - just going after a person. And considering that Bragg has reduced more than half of the felony violations to misdemeanors in NYC but has bent over backwards to increase a misdemeanor violation to a felony in Trump”s case shows that these are solely political prosecutions.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Post knew all about the flag at the time and failed to report on it. Also Martha Ann sounds insane.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washington

The Post should be ashamed. That is a godawful look for them on a number of reporting/editorial levels.

Pathetic.

Post is Bezos, right?
Not covering this, especially considering what was going on at the time is highly questionable.

Not questionable at all since they determined it was a neighborhood dispute and not political. Therefore, not a story.

At this point, I do not trust our courts. I would never find to convict someone because if it wasn't abundantly clear before, it is clear now that the justice system is FOS. And yes, I would not divulge this information during voir dire process. NOT GUILTY. My FU to the system that is now FUBAR.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He has a right to free speech because, get this, Supreme Court justices are US citizens.

It’s his private property.

He is a US Supreme Court Judge.
He is supposed to be impartial.
He is not supposed to flout the rules and display partisan symbols, particularly when he is ruling on cases related to that very issue he has so clearly demonstrated he is not impartial at all, but has a very clear bias in favor of the insurrectionists.

If he wants to express his political views in public, he should step down from the SCOTUS. Until then, he needs to keep his views private, or recuse himself from cases where he has no business claiming impartiality. By flying flags supporting the January 6 uprising, Judge Alito demonstrates in full view of the public that he is not impartial, and therefore cannot be on the SCOTUS.

Justices do not lose their First Amendment rights just because they sit on the Supreme Court. Also, you're making a significant assumption about the meaning of the flags and the intent in their display. Where is your objective evidence that Justice Alito or his wife support an overthrow of the U.S. Government?

You guys never understand the first amendment or anything about federal employees. Truly, if you’re not a Russian troll, you must be writing from the middle of nowhere and have never left your town or interacted with anyone outside your family.

This. You have to wonder if these people ever leave their homes. Do they just spend their days going down weird rabbit holes? They are not tethered to reality.

They don't lose their First Amendment rights. They are constrained by ethics rules.

If the standard being applied to Justice Alito (and it's his wife, not him) is the correct one, why hasn't Judge Chutkin in the D.C. case recused herself? Or perhaps Alvin Bragg and Letitia James in New York? Those seem to be far more obvious situations than the one being levied against Justice Alito.

Pp here. I was referring to posters like you. You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. You’re just grabbing random names of judges and prosecutors who serve in completely different capacities and are stringing them together because you perceive they are being “unfair” to Trump. Please please please think!

Again with the ad hominem attacks. Either rules are applied evenly, or they're not applied at all. Oh wait, it's (D)ifferent.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He has a right to free speech because, get this, Supreme Court justices are US citizens.

It’s his private property.

He is a US Supreme Court Judge.
He is supposed to be impartial.
He is not supposed to flout the rules and display partisan symbols, particularly when he is ruling on cases related to that very issue he has so clearly demonstrated he is not impartial at all, but has a very clear bias in favor of the insurrectionists.

If he wants to express his political views in public, he should step down from the SCOTUS. Until then, he needs to keep his views private, or recuse himself from cases where he has no business claiming impartiality. By flying flags supporting the January 6 uprising, Judge Alito demonstrates in full view of the public that he is not impartial, and therefore cannot be on the SCOTUS.

Justices do not lose their First Amendment rights just because they sit on the Supreme Court. Also, you're making a significant assumption about the meaning of the flags and the intent in their display. Where is your objective evidence that Justice Alito or his wife support an overthrow of the U.S. Government?

You guys never understand the first amendment or anything about federal employees. Truly, if you’re not a Russian troll, you must be writing from the middle of nowhere and have never left your town or interacted with anyone outside your family.

This. You have to wonder if these people ever leave their homes. Do they just spend their days going down weird rabbit holes? They are not tethered to reality.

They don't lose their First Amendment rights. They are constrained by ethics rules.

If the standard being applied to Justice Alito (and it's his wife, not him) is the correct one, why hasn't Judge Chutkin in the D.C. case recused herself? Or perhaps Alvin Bragg and Letitia James in New York? Those seem to be far more obvious situations than the one being levied against Justice Alito.

Pp here. I was referring to posters like you. You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. You’re just grabbing random names of judges and prosecutors who serve in completely different capacities and are stringing them together because you perceive they are being “unfair” to Trump. Please please please think!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He has a right to free speech because, get this, Supreme Court justices are US citizens.

It’s his private property.

He is a US Supreme Court Judge.
He is supposed to be impartial.
He is not supposed to flout the rules and display partisan symbols, particularly when he is ruling on cases related to that very issue he has so clearly demonstrated he is not impartial at all, but has a very clear bias in favor of the insurrectionists.

If he wants to express his political views in public, he should step down from the SCOTUS. Until then, he needs to keep his views private, or recuse himself from cases where he has no business claiming impartiality. By flying flags supporting the January 6 uprising, Judge Alito demonstrates in full view of the public that he is not impartial, and therefore cannot be on the SCOTUS.

Justices do not lose their First Amendment rights just because they sit on the Supreme Court. Also, you're making a significant assumption about the meaning of the flags and the intent in their display. Where is your objective evidence that Justice Alito or his wife support an overthrow of the U.S. Government?

You guys never understand the first amendment or anything about federal employees. Truly, if you’re not a Russian troll, you must be writing from the middle of nowhere and have never left your town or interacted with anyone outside your family.

This. You have to wonder if these people ever leave their homes. Do they just spend their days going down weird rabbit holes? They are not tethered to reality.

They don't lose their First Amendment rights. They are constrained by ethics rules.

If the standard being applied to Justice Alito (and it's his wife, not him) is the correct one, why hasn't Judge Chutkin in the D.C. case recused herself? Or perhaps Alvin Bragg and Letitia James in New York? Those seem to be far more obvious situations than the one being levied against Justice Alito.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He has a right to free speech because, get this, Supreme Court justices are US citizens.

It’s his private property.

He is a US Supreme Court Judge.
He is supposed to be impartial.
He is not supposed to flout the rules and display partisan symbols, particularly when he is ruling on cases related to that very issue he has so clearly demonstrated he is not impartial at all, but has a very clear bias in favor of the insurrectionists.

If he wants to express his political views in public, he should step down from the SCOTUS. Until then, he needs to keep his views private, or recuse himself from cases where he has no business claiming impartiality. By flying flags supporting the January 6 uprising, Judge Alito demonstrates in full view of the public that he is not impartial, and therefore cannot be on the SCOTUS.

Justices do not lose their First Amendment rights just because they sit on the Supreme Court. Also, you're making a significant assumption about the meaning of the flags and the intent in their display. Where is your objective evidence that Justice Alito or his wife support an overthrow of the U.S. Government?

You guys never understand the first amendment or anything about federal employees. Truly, if you’re not a Russian troll, you must be writing from the middle of nowhere and have never left your town or interacted with anyone outside your family.

This. You have to wonder if these people ever leave their homes. Do they just spend their days going down weird rabbit holes? They are not tethered to reality.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Post knew all about the flag at the time and failed to report on it. Also Martha Ann sounds insane.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washington

The Post should be ashamed. That is a godawful look for them on a number of reporting/editorial levels.

Pathetic.

Post is Bezos, right?
Not covering this, especially considering what was going on at the time is highly questionable.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He has a right to free speech because, get this, Supreme Court justices are US citizens.

It’s his private property.

He is a US Supreme Court Judge.
He is supposed to be impartial.
He is not supposed to flout the rules and display partisan symbols, particularly when he is ruling on cases related to that very issue he has so clearly demonstrated he is not impartial at all, but has a very clear bias in favor of the insurrectionists.

If he wants to express his political views in public, he should step down from the SCOTUS. Until then, he needs to keep his views private, or recuse himself from cases where he has no business claiming impartiality. By flying flags supporting the January 6 uprising, Judge Alito demonstrates in full view of the public that he is not impartial, and therefore cannot be on the SCOTUS.

Correct.

But we’d better vote blue in wide enough margins that the GOP monster is put out to pasture for good.

You seem confused. Alito’s wife, according to the Post, is the person who put up the flag upside down. Alito has no reason to recuse himself and he won’t.

We know he won’t. He is the definition of corruption (second only to Thomas). His legacy is trashed.

Weren't ethics allegations made against Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson?

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4370598-conservative-nonprofit-files-ethics-complaint-ketanji-brown-jackson/

Well we will see if she recuses herself on medical malpractice suits. Meanwhile, we have J6 related case before the courts and the current corrupted biased SC justices lack and ethics or moral leadership. No one faith in the SCOTUS is the lowest it’s ever been. CJ Roberts just turns a blind eye to unethical justices.

America deserves what it gets.

Recusal? Quite a few folks in this thread are calling for Justices Alito and Thomas to resign. Maybe Chief Justice Roberts is following the rules. If the ethics rules don't require recusal, then a Justice (or judge) is free to choose not to do so.

There are no ethics rules for SCOTUS. That’s why Alito and Thomas know they’re free to be corrupt and traitorous. It is what it is. At least legacy matters to SCOTUS, and they’re both flushed their reputations for the records.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Post knew all about the flag at the time and failed to report on it. Also Martha Ann sounds insane.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washington

The Post should be ashamed. That is a godawful look for them on a number of reporting/editorial levels.

Pathetic.

+1. But I think it's entirely in line with the posture of the media trying to maintain a facade of normalcy. There was and still is a reluctance to call J6 an attempted coup.

Over the years the media has allowed a very ivory tower type structure to exist around the SC justices even when you had an arm of the Republican party wholly controlling the pipeline of federal judicial nominations from Republicans. That's not democracy, but the stories were about RBG's workouts instead of the fact that an entire pipeline of nominees was being prepped to do the bidding of a minority of Americans.

I just heard a news segment that was a "discussion" about how Republicans could ban birth control, or certain forms of birth control. It's the 21st Century! How are we having any discussion about access to contraception.

There is such a dogged determination to normalize things that simply aren't normal - the boiling frog metaphor could not be more apt at this time.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He has a right to free speech because, get this, Supreme Court justices are US citizens.

It’s his private property.

He is a US Supreme Court Judge.
He is supposed to be impartial.
He is not supposed to flout the rules and display partisan symbols, particularly when he is ruling on cases related to that very issue he has so clearly demonstrated he is not impartial at all, but has a very clear bias in favor of the insurrectionists.

If he wants to express his political views in public, he should step down from the SCOTUS. Until then, he needs to keep his views private, or recuse himself from cases where he has no business claiming impartiality. By flying flags supporting the January 6 uprising, Judge Alito demonstrates in full view of the public that he is not impartial, and therefore cannot be on the SCOTUS.

Correct.

But we’d better vote blue in wide enough margins that the GOP monster is put out to pasture for good.

You seem confused. Alito’s wife, according to the Post, is the person who put up the flag upside down. Alito has no reason to recuse himself and he won’t.

We know he won’t. He is the definition of corruption (second only to Thomas). His legacy is trashed.

Weren't ethics allegations made against Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson?

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4370598-conservative-nonprofit-files-ethics-complaint-ketanji-brown-jackson/

Well we will see if she recuses herself on medical malpractice suits. Meanwhile, we have J6 related case before the courts and the current corrupted biased SC justices lack and ethics or moral leadership. No one faith in the SCOTUS is the lowest it’s ever been. CJ Roberts just turns a blind eye to unethical justices.

America deserves what it gets.

Recusal? Quite a few folks in this thread are calling for Justices Alito and Thomas to resign. Maybe Chief Justice Roberts is following the rules. If the ethics rules don't require recusal, then a Justice (or judge) is free to choose not to do so.

Anonymous wrote:The Post knew all about the flag at the time and failed to report on it. Also Martha Ann sounds insane.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washington

The Post should be ashamed. That is a godawful look for them on a number of reporting/editorial levels.

Pathetic.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He has a right to free speech because, get this, Supreme Court justices are US citizens.

It’s his private property.

He is a US Supreme Court Judge.
He is supposed to be impartial.
He is not supposed to flout the rules and display partisan symbols, particularly when he is ruling on cases related to that very issue he has so clearly demonstrated he is not impartial at all, but has a very clear bias in favor of the insurrectionists.

If he wants to express his political views in public, he should step down from the SCOTUS. Until then, he needs to keep his views private, or recuse himself from cases where he has no business claiming impartiality. By flying flags supporting the January 6 uprising, Judge Alito demonstrates in full view of the public that he is not impartial, and therefore cannot be on the SCOTUS.

Correct.

But we’d better vote blue in wide enough margins that the GOP monster is put out to pasture for good.

You seem confused. Alito’s wife, according to the Post, is the person who put up the flag upside down. Alito has no reason to recuse himself and he won’t.

We know he won’t. He is the definition of corruption (second only to Thomas). His legacy is trashed.

Weren't ethics allegations made against Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson?

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4370598-conservative-nonprofit-files-ethics-complaint-ketanji-brown-jackson/

Well we will see if she recuses herself on medical malpractice suits. Meanwhile, we have J6 related case before the courts and the current corrupted biased SC justices lack and ethics or moral leadership. No one faith in the SCOTUS is the lowest it’s ever been. CJ Roberts just turns a blind eye to unethical justices.

America deserves what it gets.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He has a right to free speech because, get this, Supreme Court justices are US citizens.

It’s his private property.

He is a US Supreme Court Judge.
He is supposed to be impartial.
He is not supposed to flout the rules and display partisan symbols, particularly when he is ruling on cases related to that very issue he has so clearly demonstrated he is not impartial at all, but has a very clear bias in favor of the insurrectionists.

If he wants to express his political views in public, he should step down from the SCOTUS. Until then, he needs to keep his views private, or recuse himself from cases where he has no business claiming impartiality. By flying flags supporting the January 6 uprising, Judge Alito demonstrates in full view of the public that he is not impartial, and therefore cannot be on the SCOTUS.

Correct.

But we’d better vote blue in wide enough margins that the GOP monster is put out to pasture for good.

You seem confused. Alito’s wife, according to the Post, is the person who put up the flag upside down. Alito has no reason to recuse himself and he won’t.

We know he won’t. He is the definition of corruption (second only to Thomas). His legacy is trashed.

Weren't ethics allegations made against Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson?

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4370598-conservative-nonprofit-files-ethics-complaint-ketanji-brown-jackson/