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NEW YORK TIMES: ANOTHER CONTROVERSIAL FLAG SPOTTED OUTSIDE A SAMUEL ALITO
PROPERTY

By John Fritze, CNN
Updated 10:55 PM EDT, Wed May 22, 2024
03:22 - Source: CNN
CNN anchor pushes back on Bolton after defends Justice Alito flying
controversial flag outside home

CNN  — 

A flag that was on display during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol
was flown outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s vacation home in New
Jersey, according to a report in the New York Times on Wednesday.

Citing photographs and interviews with neighbors, the Times reports that the
“Appeal to Heaven” flag was seen on display at his property last summer. The
flag, which has a history dating to the Revolutionary War, has also become a
symbol for supporters of former President Donald Trump. The flag is white and
includes a green evergreen tree and the words “An Appeal to Heaven” at the top.

Alito and the Supreme Court did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.

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It’s the second revelation in as many weeks about a controversial display
outside Alito’s property. The New York Times last week published a photograph of
an inverted American flag raised at Alito’s home in Virginia in 2021. Alito said
the upside-down US flag was raised by his wife and was a response to a spat with
neighbors.

Shay Horse/NurPhoto/Getty Images
The "Appeal to Heaven" flag is seen in the left side of this photo from January
6, 2021, in Washington, DC, shortly before protestors stormed the US Capitol.

The episode has drawn fire from critics, including Democrats and key GOP
senators, who have called on the justice to recuse himself from cases involving
Trump and the 2021 attack on the Capitol.

Like the inverted US flag, the Appeal to Heaven flag – also known as the Pine
Tree flag – was seen during the attack on the Capitol.

House Speaker Mike Johnson faced blowback for displaying the same flag outside
his office last year before assuming the leadership post. The Appeal to Heaven
flag remains outside his office as of Wednesday.

Johnson told CNN on Wednesday that “it’s George Washington’s flag. It goes back
to the founder’s era. I’ve always flown that flag.”

“It has nothing to do with that,” Johnson said, referring to “stop the steal”
protests.

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An "Appeal to Heaven" flag is seen outside Speaker Mike Johnson's personal
office in the Cannon House Office Buiding on Wednesday, May 22.

The Alitos’ choice of flags are gaining attention in part because several
high-profile cases are currently pending before the high court involving the
election and subsequent attack on the US Capitol, including the blockbuster
question of whether Trump may claim immunity from federal election subversion
charges.

Another case deals with a January 6 defendant who is challenging an obstruction
charge filed by federal prosecutors for his role in the attack.

Some Republican lawmakers defended Alito on Wednesday, with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz
telling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that the “entire hoopla is greatly overstated” and
accusing Senate Democrats of trying to delegitimize the court.

“From the far left, the court is the one institution that they do not control,”
he said on “The Source.”

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House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan echoed a similar sentiment, pushing
back on criticism of Alito and two other conservative justices.

“Justice Alito is an outstanding justice. The left is always out to go after
him, Judge Thomas – of course, we know what they’ve done to Judge Kavanaugh,”
Jordan told CNN’s Manu Raju. “They’re all good guys, have done a good job on the
court.”

He added that Alito should not recuse himself from the January 6 case.

This story has been updated with additional developments.

CNN’s Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Morgan Rimmer and Manu Raju contributed to this
report.

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