New controversy in US Supreme Court docket over Trumpist flag

Washington. A flag carried by US Capitol rioters was displayed final 12 months on the trip house of a Supreme Court docket justice, reported The New York Instances this Wednesday, following revelations {that a} equally provocative flag was flown outdoors his residence.

Conservative Justice Samuel Alito final week confronted calls from Democrats to recuse himself from instances involving Donald Trump after the Instances confirmed that an inverted American flag – a logo of the previous president’s false claims of election fraud – was hoisted at her house in Virginia in 2021.

Then on Wednesday, the newspaper reported that an “Enchantment to Heaven” flag was raised outdoors Alito’s trip house in New Jersey final summer time.

That flag, just like the upside-down Stars and Stripes, was dropped at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, by Trump supporters in search of to dam certification of the November 2020 election gained by President Joe Biden.

He Instances posted pictures of the “Enchantment to Heaven” flag flying over a property on Lengthy Seashore Island, and cited a half-dozen neighbors and passersby who confirmed that the banner flew on the property in July and September 2023.

The flag – which bears the phrases “An Enchantment to Heaven” on a inexperienced pine tree and white background – dates again to the Revolutionary Battle.

Though it fell into oblivion, it lately turned a logo of assist for Trump and strain for a US authorities extra centered on Christianity.

Final week, Alito, 74, defended himself in opposition to criticism by claiming that the inverted flag was briefly waved by his spouse “in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard indicators.”

Justice has not but responded publicly to the revelation of the second flag.

The Supreme Court docket is at present weighing two instances that confer with January 6, together with a declare by Trump for presidential immunity in his election interference case. Sentencing is scheduled for late June or early July.