Alito’s Stars and Gripes | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

Justice Samuel Alito’s wife didn’t attend the January 6th 2021 “Stop the Steal” rally (unlike fellow SCOTUS spouse Ginni Thomas), but in January 2021, in a leafy Alexandria, Virginia cul-de-sac, the New York Times reports that the Alito household was engaged in a MAGA-infused front yard spat with the neighbors, even as the Justice was deciding cases regarding that very election at the highest court in the land. Justice Alito told the New York Times his wife was responsible for the upside down stars and stripes flying from their flagpole and that it was in retaliation for an an anti-Trump sign.
It’s unseemly. Undoubtedly unethical. But this intra-suburban squabble, and the very clear implications it has for a public already aware of the Supreme Court’s dwindling legitimacy, is unlikely to evoke shame, amends, or recusal from Justice Alito. On this week’s Amicus, American legal exceptionalism sliced three ways: Dahlia Lithwick on the Justice and the Flag, Slate’s jurisprudence editor Jeremy Stahl on how Donald J. Trump’s criminal hush money trial ends, and Congressman Jamie Raskin on concrete steps to supreme court reform, how to get back the rights the Supreme Court has taken away, and what a binding ethics code would look like.
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[@pedroh3774]

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When you’re guilty and you know it, and you want no one to know it🎼
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[@johnwelch6490]

My 2002 Lorain County, Ohio shooting was covered up and the DA became US Attorney and then Federal Magistrate quickly afterwards in Cleveland.

[@jenniferstone2975]

See Sydney Powell’s Jan 6 committee interview. She specifically cites Samuel Alito as a participant in the conspiracy.

[@Deb0033]

Priceless Transcript⏰ 46:44. Thanx. Truth & Justice Prevails.⚖️💜

[@melissabruhn1429]

Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas as well as the other 4 Leo Leonard Justices are neither "dignified" nor "impartial". We need binding enforceable ethics code long ago.
Chief Justice John Roberts could be doing so much more including not allowing Aluto ir Thomas to be writing decisions etc... as per Elie Mystal. Why should anyone believe anything Alito dies for the court?

[@kek3908]

I just love that Alito and Thomas drive you people on the left nuts. 6-3, thank President Trump.