A Washington Post spokesperson told Axios they held the story 'because the flag-raising appeared to be the work of Martha-Ann Alito.'
Inverted U.S. flag at the Alitos' home in Fairfax County, Va., in 2021, and the "Appeal to Heaven" flag outside their New Jersey vacation home last summer. Photos: Obtained by The New York Timesthat The Post's former Supreme Court reporter, Bob Barnes, did a front-yard interview with Justice Samuel Alito on Jan. 20, 2021 — President Biden's inauguration day — about the upside-down American flag that had flown outside the justice's home in Fairfax County, Va.
"Martha-Ann Alito was visibly upset by his presence, demanding that he 'get off my property.' As described the information he was seeking, she yelled, 'It's an international signal of distress!' "Alito intervened and directed his wife into a car parked in their driveway, where they had been headed on their way out of the neighborhood. The justice denied the flag was hung upside down as a political protest, saying it stemmed from a neighborhood dispute and indicating that his wife had raised it."about the couple had been placed in the neighborhood.
"The Post decided not to report on the episode at the time because the flag-raising appeared to be the work of Martha-Ann Alito, rather than the justice, and connected to a dispute with her neighbors, a Post spokeswoman said. It was not clear then that the argument was rooted in politics, the spokeswoman said."Share on linkedin
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