Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is tangled up in two flag controversies: one that goes back to Jan. 6 and another one from last summer.
FILE - Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito pauses after swearing in Mark Esper as Secretary of Defense during a ceremony with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, July 23, 2019. A second flag of a type carried by rioters during the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 , 2021, was displayed outside a house owned by Alito according to a report published May 22, 2024, by The New York Times. is tangled up in two flag controversies: one that goes back to Jan.
Justice Alito claims his wife raised the flag during a dispute with neighbors, but many are still calling for him to recuse himself over ethics violations.– make it clear that judges should recuse themselves in cases where their spouses have financial interests, but it is less clear when spouses have a known political point of view.
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