Some Democrats asked whether Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. could be impartial after an upside-down flag flew at his home following the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr., left, and his wife Martha-Ann Alito, pay their respects at the casket of Reverend Billy Graham at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, Feb. 28, 2018. -related cases at the Supreme Court after Democratic lawmakers questioned whether he could be impartial following reports that an upside-down flag flew at his home in the weeks after the attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021.
“As soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused,” Alito wrote in the letter to Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Dick Durbin . His wife, he added, “has the legal right to use the property as she sees fit, and there were no additional steps that I could have taken to have the flag taken down more promptly.”The upside-down flag — long used as a sign of distress, especially by the U.S.
Martha-Ann Alito “did not fly it to associate herself with that or any other group,” the justice wrote,"and the use of an old historic flag by a new group does not necessarily drain that flag of all other meanings.”for his efforts to remain in office after losing the 2020 election, and whether the Justice Department can use an obstruction charge to prosecute more than 300 Jan.
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