https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/29/supreme-court-alito-recuse-flag-jan-6/ “Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. announced Wednesday that he will not recuse himself from Jan. 6-related cases at the Supreme Court after Democratic lawmakers questioned whether he could be impartial following reports that an upside-down flag flew at his home in the weeks after the attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021. “ In a letter to Democratic leaders in the House and Senate, Alito said that flag and a second, religious-themed flag were raised by his wife, without his knowledge, and the incidents do not meet the conditions for recusal outlined in the Supreme Court’s code of conduct. “Alito disclosed for the first time that he was not aware of the upside-down flag until it was called to his attention and that his wife initially resisted taking it down. “As soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused,” Alito wrote in the letter to Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.).” Wow, this is a shocker. Guess he couldn’t take it down himself. He diminishes the Court as few in its history have.
He also lied about the reason the flag was flown upside down. He told FoxNews that it was in response to a spat with a neighbor; however, it turns out that spat didn't happen until weeks after the flag was flown upside down. It wasn't very believable to begin with, and presumably said to distance the significance from Jan 6th, but now proven false.
I'll defer to others as to whether he should recuse himself, but anyone who thinks his wife just coincidentally flew THAT flag (of the literal millions to choose from) mere days after January 6 in connection with a neighborhood disagreement about the 2020 election because "she likes flags" must also think that Bill Clinton coincidentally ended up with Loretta Lynch on the tarmac in Pheonix to "talk about their grandkids". Some things just don't pass the sniff taste on their face, and those are two of them. Our leaders and standard bearers must really believe that we are morons.
What do you want Alito to recuse himself from and why? Have you come out wanting Merchan to recuse himself? Because this guy is insane. Plus, he gave to the Biden campaign, and his daughter's company worked to raise money for Biden. Add that to the fact that Merchan hand-picked the jury and is allowing the jurors to choose ONE of the three predicate crimes. Mixing and matching crimes violates every principle of the Due Process Clause. You are not a serious or healthy person if you think this is okay.
I find it interesting that the same people who in recent threads praised the intelligence and ability of women to make their own decisions and to not live under the thumb of a husband, now want to punish the husband for not intervening and exercising his authority over the woman.
If Merchan is that bad you should be happy about what he's done. Because everything you wrote is reversible error if correct other than the donation part). But I suspect it's you who is incorrect, and not Merchan.
I would definitely praise her independence, holding different views from her husband, if I believed it was true. But every exercise of his official power seem to support that worldview. Moreover, every Supreme Court spouse regardless of gender has to live by certain limitations, especially for a joint residence. Remember that the court is as close to a gender balance as it ever has been, although two of the female justices are unmarried
Judges can have political leanings. In fact, that's largely how they get appointed, including for the supreme court. This is not merely a political leaning by Alito (or his wife if we buy that). It's believing in a conspiracy theory that is not rooted in fact and was repeatedly disproven in court which we should expect a Supreme Court justice to respect. Your other Merchan complaints are not accurate Jury selection was conducted the same as it is in any trial with both sides being able to strike jurors. FoxNews, thanks to Jonathan Turley, is also fanning the flames on the predicate crimes. The jury must UNANIMOUSLY agree that he falsified business records (which is what Trump was charged with), AND they have to UNANIMOUSLY agree that there was an underlying crime involved, they just don't have to agree on what that underlying crime was because at that point it doesn't matter since the jury would have unanimously agreed that Trump committed the crime in connection with an underlying crime. Curious if you have the same feelings about Judge Cannon that you do about Merchan given that she was directly appointed by Trump and personally stands to benefit if Trump becomes President again?
Won't disagree with you here. It cuts both ways on the political spectrum, to be sure. There are lots of positions of power within government that have almost limitless immunity. "We the people" is a nice catchphrase.
We might believe him if he didn't vote in his position to take decisions away from women. As it stands, he's just gaslighting us. He's also already failed to tell the truth about this once, so should we believe that this is now the true story?
So everything is a conspiracy and the only way your orange god gets a fair trial is at a maga rally? That is not how any of this works.
Really? Can you imagine some guy, any guy, sitting in prison and being asked why he was sent down, and he answers, “I have no idea and neither does the jury. They just said they believed that I was a criminal, but couldn’t agree on what crime I committed.”
