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Lethal force against Trump, sexual molestation of daughter, Fauci COVID cover up revelations, horrible inflation, using strategic oil reserves, etc..

Judges bend over backwards to avoid any sniff of impropriety or conflict. See attached.

But to dumb it down for you, let’s imagine a loved one is on trial for assaulting a police officer. Would you consider it a conflict of interest (or appearance of) if the assigned trial judge is married to a police officer from the same police department as the injured officer?


Link: https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/code_of_conduct_for_united_states_judges_effective_march_12_2019.pdf

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Link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-3-reasons-why-alito-160947376.html

This is about a Supreme Court justice, not her spouse.

Did you call for Justice Ginsberg to recant or recuse herself after calling Trump a “faker” and criticized him for not releasing his tax returns?

"I can't imagine what this place would be -- I can't imagine what the country would be -- with Donald Trump as our president," she told the New York Times in an interview published Sunday. "For the country, it could be four years. For the court, it could be -- I don't even want to contemplate that." As her late husband used to say, "'Now it's time for us to move to New Zealand,'" she told the Times."

Indeed, it is so noble for 'judges to bend over backwards to avoid any sniff of impropriety or conflict.'

You have no credibility.

EDIT: typo

Alito will be treated by history as a hack.

Justices are entitled to their political opinions, like anyone else.

If they were alive, RBG and Scalia walk jap slap Alito and Thomas for tarnishing the Court’s reputation.

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Especially when he is going to rule on their actions soon. Distraction!

And especially when we can talk about Biden's showers with his daughter or whatever. You know, the substantive issues.

So, I wouldn't worry too much about unarmed morons walking around the capitol.

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She just flew our flag upside down.

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This is a red herring and you know it. Concentrate on The Biden Disasters. Dismissing Joe's ineptness and perversion does not help your case.

role model for all citizens.

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A Flagging Campaign Against Justice Alito
The ‘ethics’ attack having failed, the left turns to flag etiquette.
Kimberley A. Strassel
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Kimberley A. Strassel

An American flag is flown upside down outside the Supreme Court in Washington, June 26, 2022. PHOTO: SAMUEL CORUM/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
The British know the risk of over-egging a pudding, but the partisan left has yet to learn the culinary art of politics. The growing absurdity of its campaign against the conservative majority on the Supreme Court is providing Americans all the excuse they now need to tune out this debate.

At least until recently, the attacks on Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito were loosely—if laughably—moored in common definitions of “ethics.” Sensible people might struggle to understand how a long-ago fishing trip, or a few days in the Adirondacks, would play any role in the long and consistent jurisprudence of the two justices, but at least the accusers were able to lob flashy terms like “disclosure” or “gifts” or “lavish vacation.”

Any pretense of seriousness evaporated last week with the New York Times’s exposé of the Alitos’ breach of flag etiquette. Justice Alito’s wife, Martha-Ann, after enduring ugly verbal attacks from neighbors, broadcast her distress by briefly flying the American flag upside down in her yard in January 2021. While Justice Alito has stated that he had nothing to do with this flag hoisting, the incident, we are told, somehow amounts to evidence that the Alitos supported Donald Trump’s “stop the steal” campaign. Where does that connection come from? A search of the Factiva news database turns up no articles containing the phrases “stop the steal” and “upside down flag” before the Times report on May 16.

Rather than retreat in humiliation, the Times doubled down this week with a follow-up report of yet another flag—this one right-side up—spotted at the Alitos’ vacation home in New Jersey. The left tells us that the 1775 Pine Tree flag was spotted among Jan. 6 protesters! And moreover, that its catch phrase, “an appeal to heaven,” derives from a radical character—John Locke.

The Times somehow fails to let readers know that the flag is a longtime symbol of independence; that it was designed by George Washington’s secretary; was flown on ships commissioned by Washington; has been honored, commemorated and flown over state capitols; and is the official maritime flag of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is currently displayed outside the office of the speaker of the House. Dozens of historic flags were toted to the Capitol on Jan. 6, as were copies of the Constitution and pictures of the American eagle. Are they all now symbols of “insurrection”?

It might seem that nothing could top such silliness, but never underestimate an obsessive. This week we are also told—in ominous tones—that Justice Alito in August 2023 sold a small holding of shares in Anheuser-Busch some four months after the company’s decision to broadcast its wokeness by forming a public partnership with a transgender social influencer. Investors had for months been fleeing a stock that was near bottom, so if anything, Justice Alito was behind the trend. Yet this act of portfolio management is now presented as proof that the justice supported an anti-transgender “boycott.”

Democratic politicians and activists are racing to translate these meritless stories into futile actions. Nearly 50 House Democrats on Tuesday signed a letter demanding Justice Alito recuse himself from any Jan. 6-related litigation and for Justice Thomas to join him because his wife works in politics. Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen introduced a resolution of censure against Justice Alito, for not having already recused himself from Jan. 6 cases.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer suggested he may call for a vote on a Democratic bill that would dictate recusal standards for the justices—a challenge to the separation of powers. The activist group Demand Justice says it will spend “six figures” on ads calling on Justice Alito to recuse himself. The group began its effort on Tuesday by unimaginatively projecting an upside-down flag onto the Supreme Court building.

This desperation belies any claim that the left’s interest is in ethics at the high court. The nonstop attacks—week after week—are aimed at altering the outcome of high-profile cases currently in front of the court, including Donald Trump’s claim that presidential immunity shields him from criminal charges related to the Jan. 6 riot. If the activists could force a recusal or two, they might sway a decision. If they fail, as they almost certainly will, they will continue smearing the court and casting doubt on the legitimacy of its decisions, with the longer-term aim of enacting legislation to pack the court by adding new justices when the Democrats control the White House and Congress.

The activists see a potential bonus. They hope to use these vapid attacks to turn the election narrative back to Donald Trump and Jan. 6, to suggest chaos and disintegration should Republicans win this fall. Joe Biden’s campaign doesn’t have much else, and the fear tactic has worked in the past.

But the current effort is so obviously a smear job that it could have the opposite of the intended effect. The justices will ignore the demands for recusal, and the public will mark all this down as politics as usual, only nastier.

Write to kim@wsj.com.

In a brief interview with CNN, Senate Republican Whip John Thune, one of the contenders vying to replace retiring Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, called the flag a “bad decision.”

“I don’t know how you explain that,” Thune said.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that it was a “mistake” for Alito to have an American flag hanging upside down at his home.

A photo obtained by The New York Times shows an inverted flag at the Alito residence on Jan. 17, 2021, three days before the Biden inauguration.
A photo obtained by The New York Times shows an inverted flag at the Alito residence on Jan. 17, 2021, three days before the Biden inauguration. From The New York Times
“It creates a bad image,” Graham told CNN’s Manu Raju. “It created a situation that we’re all talking about. So, yeah, I think it was a mistake.”

Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney echoed concerns about the flag.

“It’s very unfortunate and we ought to take a look at it,” he said to reporters.

MAGA way.

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