Alito's account of the upside-down flag doesn't fully add up. Here's why.

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Alito’s account of the upside-down flag doesn’t fully add up. Here’s why.
A look at the major discrepancies in Justice Samuel Alito’s comments about controversial flags flown at his property and what he still has not fully answered.

By Justin Jouvenal
June 5, 2024 at 2:15 p.m. EDT

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. has offered multiple accounts of how politically charged flags came to fly outside his homes in Virginia and New Jersey — the type of display that is generally off-limits for judges, who must remain impartial and avoid even the appearance of bias as they handle cases.

Since the public revelation of the flags engulfed the nation’s highest court in criticism last month and prompted calls for Alito’s recusal from certain cases, the justice has said it was his wife who flew the banners, not him, and that she flew one of them after a neighborhood dispute. But his successive explanations — in a statement, an interview with Fox News and letters to Congress — have raised additional questions, and in some cases conflicted with known facts.

Alito has yet to fully explain some key aspects of the controversy: How long did an upside-down American flag fly at the Alitos’ Virginia home? Where did they get the “Appeal to Heaven” flag that flew at their New Jersey beach house? And more.

Here are the major discrepancies in Alito’s telling and what he still has not fully answered. Neither he nor his wife, Martha-Ann Alito, responded to a request for comment.

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By Justin Jouvenal
Justin Jouvenal covers the Supreme Court. He previously covered policing and the courts locally and nationally. He joined The Post in 2009. Twitter https://twitter.com/jjouvenal

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1. We already know how biased Alito is. He just wants some way of bragging about it

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2. Since this is in the Editorials forum, I'll share my opinion

I believe the forces backing rump, MAGA in general, and other shadowy groups within the RW spheres of influence all thought they were going to pull it off. They expected bloodshed against a prominent figure ( Mike Pence?) and rump declaring martial law. After that, they would throw the election by any means. Fortunately, order was restored and the process continued.

For me, no other incident exemplifies their conviction that the fix was in than Rudy Giuliani groping Cassidy Hutchinson in the makeshift command center put together to celebrate the insurrection. Ghouliani thought democracy itself was over, so why not select your concubines for the new reich? He was making a territorial claim for women to populate his harum. I believe that incident provided the stimulus for Cassidy Hutchinson to break silence. Apparently, she was on-board with the agenda until the perverted fuckstick revealed his intention to make her his new main squeeze.