A former neighbor of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said that in her words at worst he's just outright lying about his account of a neighborhood dispute that led to hoisting an upside-down American flag at his Virginia home.

The inverted flag is associated with the effort to overturn President Biden's 2020 election win.

Justice Alito has been in the spotlight over flying controversial flags at his homes

is first revealed by reporting from the New York Times.

Our Lisa Desjardan joins us now.

So Lisa, what's new here in this account?

So important details about the timeline are new, but I also want to talk about why this matters of course.

Justice Alito is currently sitting on two cases about January 6th, one about former President Trump's involvement in January 6. These cases of course

could determine a lot about our future here and also Justice Alito has defended himself

is saying his wife hoisted the flag.

He said he will not recuse himself.

It is solely up to him, by the way.

And he's used this burden of proof.

He has said that under the Supreme Court's ethics code, what matters as if someone who is

impartial who was able to look at all of the circumstances involved, if they think that he could

be fair, then he should not recuse.

So the circumstances matter because

Justice Alito himself said they would. Now here's how he described what

happened in a letter to Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin. He wrote, a house on the

street displayed a sign attacking my wife personally, and a man berated

her in my present using file language, including what I regard as the vilest epithet that

can be addressed to a woman. Now a couple of details in this he's

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