In two letters, Alito said it was his wife’s decision to fly two politically contentious flags, adding that neither he nor his wife was aware of the modern political connotations associated with the flags.
Justice Samuel Alito has declined to recuse himself from two Jan. 6-related cases, including one involving presidential immunity.
In almost identical letters to Senate and House leaders, Alito wrote that calls from members of Congress for his recusal “do not meet the conditions” as set out by the Supreme Court’s code of ethics, which leaves it up to individual justices to decide on whether to recuse themselves or not.reports that said an upside down American flag was flown outside the home Alito shares with his wife in Virginia and that an “” flag was flown outside the couple’s New Jersey vacation home.
Democratic lawmakers argued that the flags outside Alito’s home meant he was unable to be impartial in the cases.He said the upside down U.S. flag was in response to a “very nasty” dispute with a neighbor that made his wife “greatly distressed.
“My wife is a private citizen, and she possesses the same First Amendment rights as every other American,” he added.reported that a couple in the neighborhood had a dispute with Martha-Ann Alito and had at one point called the police because they felt she was harassing them. The couple told the newspaper that their dispute occurred after the flag was taken down.
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