{"id":57128,"date":"2024-05-29T20:41:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T20:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57128"},"modified":"2024-05-29T20:41:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T20:41:33","slug":"scotus-justice-blames-wife-for-the-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57128","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS justice blames wife for the flag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Associate US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has fallen back on the &#8220;blame my wife&#8221; defense in a case involving an upside-down flag flying at his home.<\/p>\n<p>Alito has refused to recuse himself from any cases involving the former POTUS&#8217;s legal troubles involving his loyalty to the Constitution and to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>He has been flying an upside-down flag at his home. The upside-down flag, of course, is the international symbol of a nation in distress.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Hill: <em>\u201cI had nothing whatsoever to do with the flying of that flag. I was not even aware of the upside-down flag until it was called to my attention. As soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused,\u201d Alito wrote, noting that they own their home \u201cjointly\u201d and that she has a \u201clegal right to use the property as she sees fit.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alito is now perceived as a justice who cannot remain impartial regarding cases involving the ex-POTUS. As they about perception, it&#8217;s the same thing as reality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/4692058-alito-recusal-flags-controversy-supreme-court\/\">Alito rejects calls to recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases over upside-down flag issue (thehill.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The man shouldn&#8217;t be deciding these cases. Justice Alito has laid his bias out there for the whole world to see.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has fallen back on the &#8220;blame my wife&#8221; defense in a case involving an upside-down flag flying at his home. Alito has refused to recuse himself from any cases involving the former POTUS&#8217;s legal troubles involving his loyalty to the Constitution and to the nation. He has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57128\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SCOTUS justice blames wife for the flag<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7419,4091,6363],"class_list":["post-57128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-maga","tag-samuel-alito","tag-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57129,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57128\/revisions\/57129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}