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Turned to the serious growing scandals surrounding Supreme Court Justice Alito

who's running from the flag flown over his own home which was disloyal to the US.

The New York Times reporting after the insurrection, as you may have now heard, Alito's home flew this upside down

an American flag, echoing what riders carried as they stormed the Capitol on Jan 6.

It is affiliated with the people who say stop the steal, a conspiracy theory about Trump's

loss.

It is wrong for an impartial judge to publicly agitate against the U.S. government at all,

let alone by showing this direct sympathy or common cause with insurrectionists in that very time period.

Doing so in those early days right after the attack is

truly extreme but Alito has repeatedly proven to be an extremist.

That is a fact that also is negative for someone

who is supposed to be an impartial judge.

The Supreme Court is a government building.

It follows the US flag code.

Alito's personal home violated that in a public display that others would obviously see.

In the code section respecting the flag, it mandates the flag should never be displayed upside down.

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