It's kinda wild to me that Alito would be so stupid
Also that this took three fuckin years to come out
this post was submitted on 17 May 2024
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Well, nobody is able to hold him accountable. So he can do shot like this with impunity.
This certainly explains why Alito voted to deliberately delay Treason Trump's coup attempt trial for as long as he possibly can.
And helped the illegitimate SC completely dodge the 14th Amendment disqualification portion of the Colorado case.
“I had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag,” Justice Alito said in an emailed statement to The Times. “It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.”
Another Supreme Court wife causing trouble, eh?
A neighbor made you upset, so you post the absolutely most understood rule of anti government? While your husband is a part of that government? Yeah, that doesn't......fly.
This is so fucking funny. Why is this not the headline? His wife sounds like queen fuckin Karen in charge of every HOA in seven blocks.
It's not my fault! My wife keeps accepting these bribes. And then I gotta go along on all these vacations, otherwise it'll go to waste.
Ah, I remember this bitchass tried to mess up obama's inauguration's speech hoping to mess up his presidency, lmao, pathetic.
This doesn't look like his house, but he defended it so it must be.
He lives up the road from me (I only found out when roe got fucked and a swat team and 3 dozen police were camped out in front of his house).
That said, his excuse could be somewhat valid. People can get dumb with their yard signs up here. The MAGA crowd are a very small minority up here and most people aren't shy about "counter signage" (eg BLM, pride flags, Biden signs).
If his wife was butthurt about signs hurting her feelings, maybe she did this in protest.
Also, and I hate that I'm defending this piece of shit, but flipping a flag upside down isn't a "stop the steal" specific sign of protest. People do it for all sorts of reasons.
I'm not willing to "give" them this symbol/protest.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
After the 2020 presidential election, as some Trump supporters falsely claimed that President Biden had stolen the office, many of them displayed a startling symbol outside their homes, on their cars and in online posts: an upside-down American flag.
Judicial experts said in interviews that the flag was a clear violation of ethics rules, which seek to avoid even the appearance of bias, and could sow doubt about Justice Alito’s impartiality in cases related to the election and the Capitol riot.
Interviews show that the justice’s wife, Martha-Ann Alito, had been in a dispute with another family on the block over an anti-Trump sign on their lawn, but given the timing and the starkness of the symbol, neighbors interpreted the inverted flag as a political statement by the couple.
Last Saturday, May 11, protesters returned to the street, waving flags of their own (“Don’t Tread on My Uterus”) and using a megaphone to broadcast expletives at Justice Alito, who was in Ohio giving a commencement address.
Over the years, upside-down flags have been displayed by both the right and the left as an outcry over a range of issues, including the Vietnam War, gun violence, the Supreme Court’s overturning of the constitutional right to abortion and, in particular, election results.
During Mr. Trump’s quest to win, and then subvert, the 2020 election, the gesture took off as never before, becoming “really established as a symbol of the ‘Stop the Steal’ campaign,” according to Alex Newhouse, a researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Trump and his chumps can try to claim that practice as their own but we know its a symbol of distress predating the orange tumor.