Opinion: Nobody Is Buying SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito’s Excuses
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After it was revealed that an upside down American flag was spotted outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in the days leading up to President Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021, the longtime jurist had several chances to correct the record on why, exactly, a symbol favored by right-wing extremists to signal their false belief that the 2020 election had been stolen turned up outside the home of a supposedly nonpartisan judge.
Alito has since blamed both his wife and a neighborly dispute for the brewing scandal in a pair of interviews—but he hasn’t once disavowed the symbolism behind the flag or even suggested that he didn’t know what it meant.