Samuel Alito’s Alleged Flag Smear Deemed Absurd by Washington Post

Just how absurd is the media’s attempted smear of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito over a flag flown at his house that leftists claim is linked to Jan. 6 protesters?

So absurd that even the Washington Post — which basically invented “defense of democracy” porn — refused to run with the story when it initially hit the paper’s radar in 2021.

So what is the “story” here?

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito after swearing in Mark Esper during a ceremony with then-President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. AP

Well, in the course of a dispute with an annoying neighbor, the justice’s wife flew an upside-down American flag at their home.

She said at the time, correctly, that Old Glory upside down is an “international symbol of distress.”

But now media leftists are screeching that the upside-down flag actually proves that Alito was secretly in favor of the Jan. 6 protests and therefore he must now recuse himself from all cases regarding Donald Trump.

So let’s review.

Alito didn’t fly the flag.

Even if he had, flying a flag upside down is 100% constitutionally protected speech.

So the demands, like that from AOC, for investigations are — in a word — insane.

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