Democrats go flag crazy
By
Washington Examiner
May 24, 2024 12:01 am
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June is approaching, which means the Supreme Court is set to issue all its most important decisions before justices recess for the summer. Thanks to the Democrats‘ relentless campaign to delegitimize the nation’s justice system, the arrival of June also now means it is time for media hit pieces on conservative Supreme Court justices and their families.
Right on schedule, the New York Times released a doozy of a tendentious article last week dredging up a story about an upside-down American flag hung at Justice Samuel Alito’s home … three years ago! Democrats want people to believe Alito flew the flag to signal support for the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, and President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” movement.
They also want people to believe this is some kind of “ethics” violation because the Supreme Court was considering two Trump-related cases at that time. Democrats, including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL), have since claimed that because of this flag flying, “Alito must recuse himself immediately from cases related to the 2020 election and the January 6th insurrection.”
That’s not happening, nor should it. The suggestion is a characteristically vicious one from the senator. The claim being made about the significance of the upside-down flag falls apart upon the slightest inspection. Trump had already conceded by the time the flag was flown. Of the two 2020 election cases the court was considering, one would not have altered the outcome of the election, and Alito specifically said he would not grant any relief in the other.
The flag was hung in a dispute with foul-mouthed neighbors. And the New York Times offers no evidence that an upside-down American flag was ever known to anyone as a symbol of the Stop the Steal movement. It has traditionally been known as a sign of distress, which the Alitos were under from their expletive-spewing neighbors.
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