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Thursday, May 23rd, 2024

Second flag carried by Jan. 6 rioters displayed outside house owned by Justice Alito, report says

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Source:     Associated Press
Publication Date:     May 22, 2024 | 3:36 PM PDT
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Stephan:  

You have probably already seen one of the many reports on Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s open, one might even say blatant, proclamation that he is a christofascist, not a neutral law-based Justice. Everyone is talking about how Alito and Thomas clearly think themselves above the law and lack any ethical standards. The reason I am running this story, however, is to make a different very important point that is not getting properly discussed. I don’t see anything new in Alito’s proclamation. He has made who he is quite clear over several years now.  What I think is important is that this Alito story is telling America that one of the legislative branches, the House, and the peak of the judicial branch, the Supreme Court, are now under the control of anti-democracy christofascists. I’m not sure it is correct to say the United States is still a democracy.

Supreme Court christofascist Associate Justice Justice Samuel Alito Jr. and his wife Martha-Ann Alito.
Credit: Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A second flag of a type carried by rioters during the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was displayed outside a house owned by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

An “Appeal to Heaven” flag was flown outside Alito’s beach vacation home last summer. An inverted American flag — another symbol carried by rioters — was seen at Alito’s home outside Washington less than two weeks after the violent attack on the Capitol.

News of the upside-down American flag sparked an uproar last week, including calls from high-ranking Democrats for Alito to recuse himself from cases related to former President Donald Trump.

Alito and the court declined to respond to requests for comment on how the “Appeal to Heaven” flag came to be flying and what it was intended to express. He previously said the inverted American flag was flown by his wife amid a dispute with neighbors, and […]

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1 Comment

  1. Terri Quint on Thursday, May 23, 2024 at 7:22 am

    What we are learning month after month is that the US doesn’t have a justice system when it comes to the Supreme Court. There MUST be an ethics policy that must be followed and either the Supreme Court makes one that is voted on my Congress or Congress needs to make one. This is not an autocracy anywhere in our system, which includes the Supreme Court. Personally, just given what has occurred with both Alito and Thomas, both should have been impeached!
    But we have a Chief Justice who is a scaredy cat and he never says anything in a leadership position to keep the Court on the up and up. Both Thomas and Alito should be audited by the IRS and be forced to pay back taxes for all the gifts they have received from rich men. We already know that they are not supposed to show any political side and yet they clearly have. What has been done about it. Nothing, because we have a very week Chief Justice who also needs to be terminated. None of them are above the law and rulings should be made solely on constitutionality, not politics or religion, which has been regularly done recently.