Democrats and their media allies will stop at nothing to try and discredit/disqualify the conservatives on the Supreme Court, as we’ve seen in numerous hit pieces and attempts by high-ranking Dem officials to shame them into testifying before Congressional committees regarding alleged “conflicts of interest.”
The Biden White House, too, has gotten in on the act, with Joe Biden himself even going so far recently as to equate the Justices to segregationists.
The latest smears come courtesy of the Democrat apologists at the New York Times, who ran not one but two hit pieces on Justice Samuel Alito within a week of each other trying to tie flags flown at Alito’s home and beach house to the Jan. 6th riot.
The first one was regarding an American flag that was flown at Alito’s house upside down 11 days after the Capitol riot:
Justice Alito’s response was to note that “It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.”
That wasn’t good enough for the so-called newspaper of record, who called in purported “judicial experts” to claim that because the upside-down flag was a Jan. 6th symbol it being flown that way at the Alito home meant he was ethically compromised:
Judicial experts said in interviews that the flag was a clear violation of ethics rules, which seek to avoid even the appearance of bias, and could sow doubt about Justice Alito’s impartiality in cases related to the election and the Capitol riot.
The mere impression of political opinion can be a problem, the ethics experts said. “It might be his spouse or someone else living in his home, but he shouldn’t have it in his yard as his message to the world,” said Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia.
In the second one, which has three bylines, we learned the “Appeal to Heaven” flag had been flown at Alito’s beach house. The Times was quick in this instance, too, to claim a “link to Jan. 6”:
As was the case with the first article, the paper leaned in heavily on the alleged experts to inform readers that this was not a good look for Alito, while also tossing in a Republican criticism for good measure:
The revelation about that flag prompted concerns from legal scholars and ethicists, and calls from dozens of Democratic lawmakers that the justice recuse himself from cases related to Jan. 6. The news also drew criticism from some conservative politicians, including Senator Lindsey Graham, who said that displaying the inverted flag was “not good judgment.”
Jodi Kantor also retweeted this tweet from ProPublica reporter Andy Kroll. ProPublica, which is funded in part by the same left-wing activist groups that have attacked Justice Clarence Thomas, has been at the center of many of the “conflict of interest” allegations and “investigative” stories against the conservative Justices:
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) was one of many Congressional Democrats demanding Alito recuse himself from cases related to Jan. 6th and the 2020 presidential election:
In response to both stories, the Times got pilloried by conservatives who knew a rat when they smelled one:
Bingo.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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