Justice Samuel Alito Throws His Wife Under the Bus for 2nd Flag Incident

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has spoken out at length about two Jan. 6-related flags flown at his Virginia and New Jersey homes—and has squarely aimed the blame at his wife.

“My wife is a private citizen, and she possesses the same First Amendment rights as every other American,” Alito wrote in two letters to members of Congress on Wednesday in which he refused to recuse himself from Supreme Court cases related to Donald Trump and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. “She makes her own decisions, and I have always respected her right to do so.”

Alito added that his wife’s decision to fly an upside-down American flag outside their Virginia home in Jan. 2021 resulted from a “very nasty neighborhood dispute.” An ‘Appeal to Heaven’ flag, associated with Christian nationalist movements and co-opted by Capitol rioters, was flown outside the couple’s beach home on the Jersey Shore last summer.

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