The same flag outside the current house speaker’s office?
Speaker Johnson’s close ties to Christian right — both mainstream and fringe
Flags associated with acts of treason have been normalized now. Good luck pursuing that investigation for more than just show.
Congress is bias and allowed to be. The courts are bias and not supposed to be. They are supposed to recuse themselves if they have Personal bias/impact on a case.
It’s probably easier to bring charges against him then try to pressure him into doing the right thing and recusing himself…
We keep picking these fights that will take just as much effort as real progress, but if we win, it’s such small victories that it doesn’t really matter.
That’s not an excuse not to do anything tho, it’s a pretty obvious reason we need to try and do more.
You can’t fight fascist extremists by meeting them halway.
Charge him with what, exactly? He has a first amendment right to fly whatever politically divisive flag he (or his wife if we’re to believe him) chooses, just as anyone else does. As far as I’m aware, the Supreme Court still has no legally-binding ethics rules, so no matter how clear a bias he shows, there’s no crime to prosecute. His recusal is at his sole discretion.
I don’t know if the legislative branch has the authority to codify a legally enforceable code of ethics that has some backbone, but even if they do I’m sure someone would fight it up to the Supreme Court where they’d just nullify it anyway.
Then our system of government is imperfect and should be changed. By the people, for the people.
So let me get this right…
Clarence Thomas has been shown to be taking bribes to the tune of millions of dollars in cash, property, vacations, etc., and Congress barely responds with crickets. Alito flies an upside down flag and all of a sudden everyone’s panties are in a bunch? Priorities…
With that said, Democrats are the ones making noise despite having exactly zero power to do shit about it. Even if they could somehow get impeachment charges in a GOP-led house, I have a better chance of being blown by the entire Dallas Cowboys cheerleading squad in alphabetical order than the Senate removing either one of them from office.
Which means this is all political theater. Alito’s lifetime appointment and the fact that the Supreme Court isn’t bound by any enforcable ethics rules mean he could literally say “Yeah, so what? What are you going to do about it? #MAGA”, knowing full well his seat will remain safe.
Clarence Thomas has been shown to be taking bribes to the tune of millions of dollars in cash, property, vacations, etc., and Congress barely responds with crickets.
They made just as much noise in the immediate aftermath of everything that came out about Clarence. And also like back then, nothing will happen.
Laughs in lifetime appointment
Yeah, but Trollito only thinks anti-xtian “bias” is worthy of concern. Being for a coup and an insurrection is probably NBD.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Leading Democrats are demanding that Samuel Alito recuse himself from election-related cases and also face investigation after a second report that a flag now associated with the far right was flying above one of his homes.
The demands follow a new report by the New York Times of a second incidence of flags flown at homes of Alito that are associated with the 6 January 2021 attack at the US Capitol.
Ocasio-Cortez also weighed in during an interview with the MSNBC host Chris Hayes late on Wednesday, calling on Senate Democrats to launch “active investigations”.
The New York Times reported that an “appeal to heaven” flag, which has been adopted by Christian nationalists, was flown at the summer home of Alito on Long Beach Island, New Jersey, last July and September.
Also known as the pine tree flag, it was originally used on warships commanded by George Washington during the American revolutionary war against the ruling British.
Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, posted on X: “Flying this flag is a political statement that is a clear and compelling reason for Alito’s recusal.
The original article contains 685 words, the summary contains 183 words. Saved 73%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
