A 'Stop The Steal' Symbol Was Displayed At Alito's House In 2021

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post

May 16, 2024, 08:12 PM EDT Updated 7 hours ago


A symbol affiliated with former President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” fallacy was on display at Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s house in 2021, a New York Times investigation found Thursday.

The symbol in question was an upside-down American flag, which supporters of Trump’s stolen election conspiracy theory began displaying after he lost to President Joe Biden in 2020. Neighbors who saw and photographed the flag confirmed to the Times that it flew on Jan. 17, 2021. The conservative justice admitted it but said it was his wife’s doing.

“I had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag,” he said in a statement to the paper. “It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.”

The Times found in interviews with neighbors that Alito’s wife, Martha-Ann Alito, was having an ongoing argument with neighbors who’d put up an anti-Trump sign with an expletive on their front lawn.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-samuel-alito-stop-the-steal-flag_n_6646913ae4b0dd63cd2bd6ae

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A photo obtained by The Times shows an inverted flag at the Alito residence on Jan. 17, 2021, three days before the Biden inauguration.


Of course DU knows that the "upside flag" = "distress" that obviously pre-dated any MAGat use of it.

36 U.S.C.
United States Code, 1996 Edition
Title 36 - PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES
CHAPTER 10 - PATRIOTIC CUSTOMS
Sec. 176 - Respect for flag
From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov

§176. Respect for flag

No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.

(a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.

(snip)

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-1996-title36/html/USCODE-1996-title36-chap10-sec176.htm

[padah513]

1. Needs to be impeached

Won't happen though, nor will he recuse himself from anything. Our party, and especially our young people, better wake up and pull it together. If we lose the Presidency this time around, we lose any chance of taking Clarence Thomas' seat and maybe even Alito's. One or both of them will be replaced with younger, more loyal future justices like Aileen Cannon. If that happens we can kiss it all goodbye.

[COL Mustard]

2. That's why it's so important

To Get Out The Vote. Trump (and trumpists) have to be massively defeated, in such numbers that no one can claim voter fraud.

[NanaCat]

25. But won't be with this House

And the Senate doesn't have the votes to convict--and probably won't for a long time. The GQP will be lockstep in voting against it, and the chances of Democrats getting 67 seats in the foreseeable future are effectively zero.

So it's a waste of breath even to bother demanding it. Because it will not happen.

[Kablooie]

3. Tempest in a teacup.

This makes no difference at all.
It should be a huge deal but consequences for Clarence Thomas demonstrated that ethics and honor are not required of justices anymore.

[BigDemVoter]

21. I agree that NOTHING will happen.

But it is so goddamned disgusting.

[modrepub]

28. Throwing Your Wife Under The Bus

to deflect criticism isn't without consequence.

[prodigitalson]

4. time to expand the court

[Novara]

5. That is NOT a "stop the steal" symbol. NOT!

The upside-down flag is used to denote a nation in distress. It could as easily be attributed to those of us who see the SCOTUS gleefully dismantling our rights and our democracy.

Fucking media.

[Polybius]

18. Plus it's not illegal

We all know how Alito votes, what he displays won't change anything.

[Novara]

20. But it IS an outrage for a SCOTUS justice to display it.

[Polybius]

22. It's dumb, but when he's home he's a private citizen

Nothing can be done about it.

[Novara]

27. Nothing WILL be done about it but he should be impeached

Federal employees are prohibited from displaying political yard signs, bumperstickers, etc. For a SCOTUS justice to do this three days before the new president is sworn in and after a failed coup attempt to make sure he never gets sworn in is absolutely abominable.

But you're right - nothing will be done.

[Zeitghost]

32. Federal Employees

Are prohibited from engaging in partisan politics while at work/on duty/in uniform. They can be as political as they would like at home.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

31. Absolutely agree. The media is doing no favors by re-labeling the upside-down flag meaning.

[onenote]

6. What evidence is there that the intent behind the upside flag was "stop the steal"

I've flown a flag upside down at times in my life. It's protected speech and what motivated my actions has varied. I assume, possibly at some risk of being disappointed, that DUers would universally support court decisions that have rejected the notion that flying a flag upside down, among other acts described in the so-called "flag code" can be treated as crimes.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. I guess reading the OP comment section

was just not do-able this morning?

[Martin68]

9. Onenote, the timing and the symbolism are clear as crystal. That's why Justice Alito blamed his wife.

[onenote]

10. Is that why the neighbors also blamed his wife?

[Martin68]

11. If that's what Alito told his neighbors, then it would.

[RobinA]

16. I Don't Care

who blamed his wife. It should not have happened as it is a political statement and as such it should never be on a SC Justice's flagpole. His wife has been the wife of a judge for long enough to know that.

[Martin68]

8. Using the wife as cover is the go-to defense by crooked SCOTUS justices. Like the rogue cop's

defense, "I thought he had a gun."

[myohmy2]

12. political...

...hack

...

[shotten99]

13. Why wait 3 years to report on this?

I’m not doubting the accuracy of the report,
but this should have been reported on years ago.

[poozwah]

14. code

alito was just sending a coded message to cokecan thomas.

[poozwah]

15. code

[Bucky]

17. Correction

(a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property, or in case a pampered upper class twit is suddenly overcome with the "vapors" that being forced to listen to someone else's opinion."

[RainCaster]

19. "The woman did it" he says- it's in the Bible

Genesis 3:11,12 (NIV)

11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Being a True Christian Judge, he had to blame his wife. Because Adam did.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

23. Alito wants to take his country back

to the 17th century.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. His parents were fresh off the boat from Italy

so he can go "take Italy back" to the Roman Empire.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. 'Just disgusting': Joe reacts to report Justice Alito flew 'Stop the Steal' symbol on front lawn

[Kaleva]

29. Freedom of speech issue?

[BumRushDaShow]

30. Ethics and "appearance of" issue

(remember the bullshit that has been thrown at Fani Willis? )