Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is still trying to steal headlines and distract from the failure of Joe Biden by introducing articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
This is nothing but ridiculous and silly grandstanding. There are no grounds for the impeachment of Thomas or Alito. Thomas did not violate any ethics standards of the Supreme Court by hanging out with people who happen to be rich Republicans any more than Democrats on the Supreme Court have violated their ethical standards by hanging out with rich Democrats.
Being on the Supreme Court automatically makes you a member of the economic and philosophical elite in this country. That&#8217;s just the way it works.
The idea that Samuel Alito should also be impeached demonstrates the full-scale insanity of the joke. The Democrats are claiming that a full-on senile president who&#8217;s incapable of forming sentences should remain in the White House, and everyone in the cabinet who knew who he is senile should remain.
But Alito’s wife flew flags the Democrats didn’t like, and they’re trying to construct that into some sort of statement about January 6 so that Alito is impeached.
Ocasio-Cortez knows her act is going nowhere. She doesn’t control the House. But getting a member to introduce articles of impeachment is the simplest thing in the world.
It&#8217;s an attempt to undermine the credibility of the Supreme Court. These same people say Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, yet our institutions are filing articles of impeachment against Thomas and Alito for absolutely nothing. They’re completely fine with the integrity of the Supreme Court as long as the majority is made up by people sympathetic to Democrats.
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The minute that there is a Republican majority, a Republican-appointed majority on the Supreme Court, then it&#8217;s time for the Democrats to destroy the institution as a whole.
Yesterday, Ocasio-Cortez put out <a href="https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases/ocasio-cortez-introduces-articles-impeachment-against-justice-thomas-and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a statement</a> saying, “The unchecked corruption crisis on the Supreme Court has now spiraled into a Constitutional crisis threatening American democracy writ large. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito’s pattern of refusal to recuse from consequential matters before the court in which they hold widely documented financial and personal entanglements constitutes a grave threat to American rule of law, the integrity of our democracy, and one of the clearest cases for which the tool of impeachment was designed.”
What “unchecked corruption crisis”? Please name the case in which Clarence Thomas was paid for his opinion. Can she? The answer, of course, is no, she cannot.
So what are the impeachment articles against Thomas?
First, “Failure to disclose financial income, gifts and reimbursement, property interests, liabilities, and transactions, among other information.” Yet he did all of the legal disclosures he&#8217;s required to do.
Next, “Refusal to recuse from matters concerning his spouse&#8217;s legal interest in cases before the court.” She is not named in any of the court cases. If my spouse has political interests, why should I have to recuse based on that? I seem to remember being told by Democrats that to even imply that married women don&#8217;t have their own political interests because they&#8217;re married, and so they&#8217;re obviously impacting their husband or vice versa, would be sexist.
Ocasio-Cortez says with regard to Alito, “Refusal to recuse from matters involving his spouse’s financial interest in cases before the court.” Personal bias or prejudice? I&#8217;m sorry. Is the new standard that justices are not supposed to know people or groups? Because that&#8217;s going to be a hard one for Democrats to fulfill.
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This is not going anywhere. The sponsors are the usual cast of idiots: Barbara Lee (D-CA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) and Jasmine Crockett (D-TX). It&#8217;s the clown caucus. And many of those members are also members of the pro-Hamas caucus in the House of Representatives.
This is AOC’s latest attempt to storm the castle.
Pathetic.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out a challenge brought by two Republican state officials and conservative social media users challenging the White House&#8217;s pressure campaigns on social media companies to remove what the Biden administration deems &#8220;misinformation.&#8221;
In a 6-3 decision with Justice Amy Coney-Barrett writing the <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-411_3dq3.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">majority opinion</a>, the court ruled that the plaintiffs did not have standing to bring the case, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/26/politics/social-media-disinformation-supreme-court-ruling/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The high court did not rule on any of the First Amendment questions raised by the plaintiffs, which included the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana along with five conservative social media users.
In her majority opinion, Barrett wrote, “To establish standing, the plaintiffs must demonstrate a substantial risk that, in the near future, they will suffer an injury that is traceable to a government defendant and redressable by the injunction they seek. Because no plaintiff has carried that burden, none has standing to seek a preliminary injunction.”
Barrett acknowledged that there is evidence showing the White House &#8220;played a role&#8221; in moderating content on social media, but she argued that was not enough to justify an injunction. The plaintiffs cited Facebook restricting a Louisiana state representative&#8217;s posts about the COVID vaccine, arguing that the post was targeted because of the Biden administration&#8217;s pressure on the Big Tech company. Barrett, however, wrote in her opinion that there was &#8220;no evidence to support the states&#8217; allegation.&#8221;
Conservative Justice Samuel Alito penned the dissent, writing that the case was “one of the most important free speech cases to reach this Court in years.” Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch joined Alito&#8217;s dissent.
Alito added that the Biden administration&#8217;s actions were &#8220;unconstitutional,&#8221; &#8220;coercive,&#8221; and &#8220;dangerous.&#8221;
“It was blatantly unconstitutional, and the country may come to regret the Court’s failure to say so,” he wrote, adding, “For months, high-ranking Government officials placed unrelenting pressure on Facebook to suppress Americans’ free speech. Because the Court unjustifiably refuses to address this serious threat to the First Amendment, I respectfully dissent.&#8221;
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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey reacted to the court&#8217;s decision, <a href="https://x.com/AGAndrewBailey/status/1805979926438244769" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writing</a> that the ruling &#8220;does not dispute&#8221; that &#8220;the deep state pressured and coerced social media companies to take down truthful speech simply because it was conservative.&#8221;
&#8220;My rallying cry to disappointed Americans is this: Missouri is not done,&#8221; Bailey added. &#8220;We are going back to the district court to obtain more discovery in order to root out Joe Biden’s vast censorship enterprise once and for all.&#8221;
The Daily Wire is suing the Biden administration in a separate social media censorship case, alleging that the U.S. State Department is engaging with and promoting censorship technology designed to bankrupt domestic media outlets with disfavored political opinions. Last month, a federal judge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-slaps-down-biden-administrations-attempt-to-dismiss-daily-wire-censorship-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rejected</a> the State Department&#8217;s attempt to get the censorship lawsuit dismissed. The Daily Wire is joined by The Federalist and the state of Texas as plaintiffs in the case.

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Hillary Clinton attacked Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on his Christian faith in a recent interview, calling the conservative justice &#8220;scary&#8221; and &#8220;a fanatic&#8221; for his religious views.
The former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee made the remarks in April during a podcast <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UpNrRNL8Gw&amp;t=535s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Democracy Docket&#8217;s Marc Elias. A clip from that discussion resurfaced on social media over the weekend.
&#8220;You know, I was in the Senate when both John Roberts and Alito were nominated to the court by George W. Bush. Therefore, I had a chance, as you rightly say, to interview both of them,&#8221; Clinton said.
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&quot;Alito struck me almost immediately&#8230;as a radical, as a fanatic, about his views of culture and the role of religion in our society and his religion&#8230;And I found him scary.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillaryClinton</a> explains how she views the current Supreme Court. Watch here: <a href="https://t.co/v3VJj3YOYh">https://t.co/v3VJj3YOYh</a> <a href="https://t.co/KQu1ThNdFZ">pic.twitter.com/KQu1ThNdFZ</a>
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&#8220;And I found John Roberts to be a kind of conservative, corporate-oriented lawyer, who had a kind of preconceived notion of the way things and people should work,&#8221; Clinton continued. &#8220;And I voted against him because I thought he was not only a candidate of the far Right, the Federalist Society and their agenda, but that his life experience was just too narrow to really be in that position.&#8221;
Alito, however, seemed like a &#8220;radical&#8221; due to his Christian faith, Clinton said.
&#8220;Alito struck me almost immediately upon sitting down to talk with him as a radical, as a fanatic about his views of culture and the role of religion in our society, and his religion, not maybe yours or mine, Marc, but his religion. And I found him scary, and I said so on the floor of the Senate when I voted against him,&#8221; Clinton said.
&#8220;We got the judges that had been groomed, put into the pipeline to do what they are now doing,&#8221; she added.
Roberts and Alito are both lifelong Catholics. Alito frequently votes with the Supreme Court&#8217;s conservative majority, while Roberts is considered a swing vote on many cases.
Alito has found himself headlining the news several times in recent months.
Last month, a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pair</a> of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> from The New York Times said Alito&#8217;s homes <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-alito-gives-his-side-of-story-on-the-neighborhood-spat-behind-nyt-flag-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">displayed</a> an upside-down American flag and an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, which people at the Capitol riot reportedly carried on January 6, 2021.
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Several Democrat senators subsequently demanded Alito recuse himself from cases involving the 2020 presidential election, which Alito <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-alito-tells-democrat-senators-he-will-not-recuse-himself-from-supreme-court-cases" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refused</a> to do.
Then, last week, Alito was secretly recorded by a liberal activist pretending to be a religious conservative who told Alito she does not think “we can negotiate with the Left.”
&#8220;One side or the other is going to win,&#8221; Alito allegedly <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/10/alito-secret-recordings-politcal-divide/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a>, according to the recording, adding that there can be &#8220;a way of living together peacefully,&#8221; but &#8220;there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised.&#8221;
Alito has been a particular target of the Left in the two years since he authored the court&#8217;s opinion in overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark abortion case.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> struck down a federal ban on bump stocks enacted by the Trump administration on Friday. 
The 6-3 ruling was split along ideological lines. Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/clarence-thomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clarence Thomas</a> wrote in the majority opinion that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) exceeded its statutory authority when it announced a ban on bump stocks following a 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas. In the ruling, Thomas said that equipping rifles with bump stocks does not turn them into machine guns, meaning they cannot be prohibited under existing law.
“This case asks whether a bump stock — an accessory for a semi-automatic rifle that allows the shooter to rapidly reengage the trigger (and therefore achieve a high rate of fire) — converts the rifle into a ‘machinegun,’” Thomas <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-976_e29g.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in his decision. “We conclude that semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock is not a ‘machinegun’ because it does not fire more than one shot &#8216;by a single function of the trigger.&#8217;”
A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-agrees-to-take-up-challenge-to-trump-era-bump-stock-ban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bump stock</a> is a device that can be attached to a semi-automatic firearm. It reduces the length of time between trigger pulls by harnessing the gun’s energy from recoil.
Thomas was joined in his decision by Justices John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Samuel Alito, who wrote a concurring opinion. In his concurrence, Alito said it would require new congressional legislation to ban bump stocks. 
“The horrible shooting spree in Las Vegas in 2017 did not change the statutory text or its meaning. That event demonstrated that a semiautomatic rifle with a bump stock can have the same lethal effect as a machinegun,” Alito wrote. “There is a simple remedy for the disparate treatment of bump stocks and machineguns. Congress can amend the law—and perhaps would have done so already if ATF had stuck with its earlier interpretation.”
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The three liberals on the court, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, all dissented. 
The <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-gun-bump-stocks-ban-unlawful-rcna154651" target="_blank" rel="noopener">case came</a> to the high court after gun owner Michael Cargill sued the government to reverse the ban after he turned in two of his bump stocks to the feds. 
As the case made its way through the court system, both the 5th and 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the ban. Biden’s Justice Department defended the rule in court after it was implemented by the Trump administration.

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Liberal ABC host Sunny Hostin took a surprising position on recently leaked audio of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife — and said that she did not like the out-of-context &#8220;hit-job&#8221; that Rolling Stone ran with as a result.
Hostin made the comments during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The View&#8221; during a discussion about Rolling Stone&#8217;s publication of the audio, arguing that she was concerned because the audio was apparently obtained through deception and secretly recorded.
In the <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/10/alito-wife-supreme-court-recordings-00162610" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released audio</a>, liberal activist Lauren Windsor pretended to be a conservative in an effort to coax a more candid reaction when she recorded Martha Ann Alito&#8217;s comments — regarding, among other things, what she would like to do to push back while Pride Month saw her street inundated with rainbow flags and other such decor.
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SHOCKING: Sunny Hostin calls the deceptively obtained, secretly recorded audio of Alito and Roberts a &#8220;hitjob.&#8221; 
&#8220;I also am not comfortable with snippets of tape recordings without consent being taken out of context.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/q1yiQ1EOPO">pic.twitter.com/q1yiQ1EOPO</a>
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&#8220;I also am not comfortable with snippets of tape recordings without consent being taken out of context,&#8221; Hostin said in reaction. &#8220;I have listened — it is legal if it&#8217;s a one-party consent state, and this was done in D.C. and this is a one-party consent district.&#8221;
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&#8220;My problem is, this happens to us at the table all the time,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We have a full-on conversation, someone takes a clip of what we say, they blow it out of proportion —&#8221;
&#8220;Do you think this was blown out of proportion?&#8221; Whoopi Goldberg asked.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t hear everything,&#8221; Hostin said. &#8220;So I&#8217;m uncomfortable with this sort of hit-job.&#8221;
Hostin and her co-hosts have previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/were-in-a-theocracy-right-now-joy-behar-joins-the-meltdown-over-roe-v-wade" target="_blank" rel="noopener">been critical</a> of the conservative justices on the Court — Alito in particular because he authored the decision that overturned the 1973 landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade.

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Plot Twist: Sunny Hostin Doesn’t Like Rolling Stone’s Leaked Justice Alito Audio

Plot Twist: Sunny Hostin Doesn't Like Rolling Stone's Leaked Justice Alito Audio

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Comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-maher" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Maher</a> ripped Left-wing backlash to the &#8220;Appeal to Heaven&#8221; flag after The New York Times used it to attack Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito by claiming that he flew the flag and that it was linked to the January 6 riot.
Alito <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-alito-tells-democrat-senators-he-will-not-recuse-himself-from-supreme-court-cases" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> in a lengthy statement to the pressure campaign, launched by Democrat senators, to get him to recuse himself from cases involving former President Donald Trump by noting that his wife flew the flag, not him, and that they are not linked to any kind of extreme groups.
&#8220;I find out now, because you never get the full story from the first day or from only one source, this flag flies a lot of places,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;They’re saying Alito flew it as … a dog whistle to the Stop The Steal people, to MAGA nation, that this is their flag now, it means that we don’t believe the election was fair, but it was flying over the City Hall in San Francisco for 60 years.&#8221;
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Maher then noted that the city of San Francisco has since ordered the flag to be removed from outside city hall.
&#8220;And now, because of this flap, Mayor London Breed there has ordered the flag to be removed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I’ve seen the American flag, yes, the American flag trashed by people who think that is somehow owned by MAGA now. Nobody owns these flags, nobody owns patriotism. I think it’s a very bad thing for San Francisco to take this down and say, okay, that’s you now. No, it’s not. Why? George Washington flew this flag. They own George Washington now?&#8221;

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On Thursday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> Chief Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-roberts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Roberts</a> rejected a request from Senate Democrats for a meeting to discuss flags seen flying at Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/samuel-alito" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Samuel Alito</a>&#8216;s homes that have drawn ethics complaints from the Left.
Roberts conveyed his message in a <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24705122/2024-05-30-cjr-letter-to-chairman-durbin-and-senator-whitehouse.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brief letter</a> to Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts,&#8221; who sent a missive last week asking for an audience with the chief justice.
&#8220;I must respectfully decline your request for a meeting,&#8221; Roberts said, adding later, &#8220;Separation of powers concerns and the importance of preserving judicial independence counsel against such appearances.&#8221;
He continued, &#8220;Moreover, the format proposed — a meeting with leaders of only one party who have expressed an interest in matters currently pending before the Court — simply underscores that participating in such a meeting would be inadvisable.&#8221;
The controversy took flight with a pair of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent</a> New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that said an upside-down American flag and an &#8220;Appeal to Heaven&#8221; flag were spotted at homes owned by the Alitos after similar flags were witnessed at the U.S. Capitol breach on January 6, 2021.
Durbin and Whitehouse additionally <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Letter%20from%20Justice%20Alito%20to%20Senators%20Durbin%20and%20Whitehouse.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urged</a> Roberts to &#8220;ensure&#8221; Alito would recuse himself from any cases related to the 2020 election or the Capitol riot, including those that relate to the question of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s claims of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eric-trump-warns-of-escalating-lawfare-if-supreme-court-rules-against-immunity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">immunity</a>.
Alito <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-alito-tells-democrat-senators-he-will-not-recuse-himself-from-supreme-court-cases" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Senate Democrats on Wednesday he would not bend to their demands. He denied being involved in putting up either flag and said his wife, Martha-Ann, put them on display as she is &#8220;fond of flying flags&#8221; and has the same First Amendment rights as every other American.
“A reasonable person who is not motivated by political or ideological considerations or a desire to affect the outcome of Supreme Court cases would conclude that this event does not meet the applicable standard for recusal. I am therefore duty-bound to reject your recusal request,&#8221; Alito <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Letter%20from%20Justice%20Alito%20to%20Senators%20Durbin%20and%20Whitehouse.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
In his letter on Thursday, Roberts made reference to Alito&#8217;s response and noted how members of the Supreme Court &#8220;recently reaffirmed the practice we have followed for 235 years pursuant to which individual Justices decide recusal issues.&#8221;

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Supreme Court Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/samuel-alito" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Samuel Alito</a> told Democrat lawmakers on Wednesday that he will not recuse himself from cases involving the 2020 presidential election after they used left-wing political attacks to demand that he do so.
Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) sent a letter to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts last week demanding that Alito recuse himself after The New York Times published a hit piece on Alito claiming that he flew an upside down American flag, which the report claimed was also a link to the January 6 riot.
&#8220;The two incidents you cite do not meet the conditions for recusal,&#8221; Alito wrote in a letter distributed by the Supreme Court. &#8220;The first incident cited in your letter concerns the flying of an upside-down American flag outside the house in Virginia where my wife and I reside. In considering whether this event requires recusal, an unbiased and reasonable person would take into account the following facts. As I have stated publicly, I had nothing whatsoever to do with the flying of that flag. I was not even aware of the upside- down flag until it was called to my attention. As soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused.&#8221;
&#8220;My wife and I own our Virginia home jointly. She therefore has the legal right to use the property as she sees fit, and there were no additional steps that I could have taken to have the flag taken down more promptly,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;My wife&#8217;s reasons for flying the flag are not relevant for present purposes, but I note that she was greatly distressed at the time due, in large part, to a very nasty neighborhood dispute in which I had no involvement. A house on the street displayed a sign attacking her personally, and a man who was living in the house at the time trailed her all the way down the street and berated her in my presence using foul language, including what I regard as the vilest epithet that can be addressed to a woman.&#8221;
Alito said that his wife is entitled to the same First Amendment rights as every other American and that it was her decision to fly the flag and that she has endured &#8220;numerous, loud, obscene, and personally insulting protests in front of our home that continue to this day and now threaten to escalate.&#8221;
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Alito then addressed another New York Times hit piece that claimed he flew a flag — the &#8220;Appeal to Heaven&#8221; flag — at his vacation home last summer that was linked to the January 6 riot.
The &#8220;Appeal to Heaven&#8221; flag was designed by Colonel Joseph Reed, who served as the personal secretary to George Washington, and was adopted for use in 1775.
&#8220;The second incident concerns a flag bearing the legend &#8216;An Appeal to Heaven&#8217; that flew in the backyard of our vacation home in the summer of 2023. I recall that my wife did fly that flag for some period of time, but I do not remember how long it flew. And what is most relevant here, I had no involvement in the decision to fly that flag,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My wife is fond of flying flags. I am not. My wife was solely responsible for having flagpoles put up at our residence and our vacation home and has flown a wide variety of flags over the years. In addition to the American flag, she has flown other patriotic flags (including a favorite flag thanking veterans), college flags, flags supporting sports teams, state and local flags, flags of nations from which the ancestors of family members came, flags of places we have visited, seasonal flags, and religious flags.&#8221;
He said that he was not familiar with the “Appeal to Heaven” flag when his wife flew it and that she had no idea it was linked to any events of January 6 when she decided to fly it.
&#8220;As I said in reference to the other flag event, my wife is an independently minded private citizen. She makes her own decisions, and I honor her right to do so. Our vacation home was purchased with money she inherited from her parents and is titled in her name. It is a place, away from Washington, where she should be able to relax,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;A reasonable person who is not motivated by political or ideological considerations or a desire to affect the outcome of Supreme Court cases would conclude that this event does not meet the applicable standard for recusal. I am therefore duty-bound to reject your recusal request.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wikipedia-editors-caught-making-multiple-changes-to-pine-tree-flag-page" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wikipedia ‘Editors’ Caught Making Multiple Changes To Pine Tree Flag Page</a>

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wikipedia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wikipedia</a> editors got caught making multiple real-time changes to its Pine Tree Flag page description to fit the narrative by some about the reason Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was flying a Revolutionary War-Era Flag.
Editors of the online encyclopedia appeared to take a page right out of the dystopian thriller “1984” by changing the flag description to match up with claims coming from the Left calling for Alito to recuse himself from cases involving former President Donald Trump, <a href="https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp/2024/05/25/wikipedia-plays-the-ministry-of-truth-in-all-lib-remake-of-the-classic-1984-n2396589">Twitchy</a> reported. At the time of the report, it had been edited 150 times since May 22.
The slew of edits comes days after The New York Times claimed the flag was “carried by rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021” and is “now a symbol of support for former President Donald J. Trump, for a religious strand of the ‘Stop the Steal’ campaign and for a push to remake American government in Christian terms,” as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-times-targets-alito-again-this-time-its-for-revolutionary-war-era-flag">reported</a>.
The Pine Tree Flag, or “Appeal to Heaven” flag, which was originally used by a squadron of frigates commissioned by George Washington at the time of the Revolutionary War, was flown at Alito’s beach house last summer.
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Wikipedia edits on the Pine Tree Flag page are fascinating.
On Wednesday, it was just a normal flag.
On Friday, it&#8217;s a now a symbol of Christian nationalism and right-wing extremism.
And the Popular Culture section on the HBO miniseries has been completely removed. <a href="https://t.co/vIadtsCiyZ">pic.twitter.com/vIadtsCiyZ</a>
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewKerrNC/status/1794095510338335069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
According to several screenshots <a href="https://x.com/JonathanRawles/status/1794084421500293142">posted on X</a>, the original description of the flag last week on Wikipedia &#8212; under the “Modern Usage” portion &#8212; described it as a flag used by “a diverse cast of characters, including some Christian nationalists.”
On Friday, the page read that the flag is “a symbol of right-wing extremism.” Another person <a href="https://x.com/AndrewKerrNC/status/1794095510338335069">posted</a> that the flag was now described as a “symbol of Christian nationalism.”
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One person noticed that other edits to claim it was a flag used by “far-right” extremists seemed to ignore the fact that the flag was flown at a BLM rally. The picture of the flag at the July 2020 rally is still on the site, one person <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Lives_Matter_protest_signs.jpg">posted</a>.
Others noted that there had been <a href="https://x.com/AndrewKerrNC/status/1794095510338335069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1794095510338335069%7Ctwgr%5Ee3427572af77c124a6569f11984be3efac17efde%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Ffuzzychimp%2F2024%2F05%2F25%2Fwikipedia-plays-the-ministry-of-truth-in-all-lib-remake-of-the-classic-1984-n2396589">edits</a> to the “Popular Culture” section, sharing screenshots to back up claims. A Wikipedia page in 2019 read, “The Pine Tree Flag appears with several other Revolutionary flags on the desk of Ron Swanson, a character on the NBC comedy ‘Parks and Recreation.’”
It also used to <a href="https://x.com/JonathanRawles/status/1794117745992511615">include</a> that “the Pine Tree Flag is shown in opening credits of all seven episodes of the HBO miniseries ‘John Adams.’ And is shown being carried by colonial forces in &#8216;Part 1: Join or Die,'&#8221; according to screenshots.
The current <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Tree_Flag">description</a> at the time of this publication reads, “In the 2020s, the flag was flown at events attended by various <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_right_(United_States)">far-right</a> groups, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_nationalism#United_States">Christian nationalists</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s ‘<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election">Stop the Steal</a>’ campaign, along with protests associated with the Black Lives Matter movement  and other causes.”
“Justice Samuel Alito flew the flag at his New Jersey home in 2023, which some criticized because of its presence at past far-right events, despite its lack of historical association with the far-right, and use at protests associated with other causes,” it added.
The latest edit has removed any “Popular Culture” references.
Hank Berrien contributed to this piece.

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Wikipedia ‘Editors’ Caught Making Multiple Changes To Pine Tree Flag Page

Wikipedia 'Editors' Caught Making Multiple Changes To Pine Tree Flag Page

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January 6

Former National Security Advisor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-bolton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Bolton</a> gave CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer an earful when the longtime broadcaster attempted to push a New York Times-based attack on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.
The controversy began last week with a New York Times &#8220;exposé&#8221; revealing that an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-alito-gives-his-side-of-story-on-the-neighborhood-spat-behind-nyt-flag-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">upside-down American flag</a> had been spotted at the Justice&#8217;s home in Alexandria, Virginia. Despite the fact that Alito explained what had happened — his wife had hung the flag amid a dispute with a neighbor — the Times immediately concluded that because the flag was spotted in late January of 2021 and Capitol rioters had also carried upside-down flags, the only possible explanation was that Alito had supported the riots.
Less than a week later, a follow-up <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-times-targets-alito-again-this-time-its-for-revolutionary-war-era-flag" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NYT report</a> revealed that Alito also had an &#8220;Appeal to Heaven&#8221; flag — a flag designed by George Washington&#8217;s private secretary and commissioned for use in the Continental Navy in 1775 — at his beach house in New Jersey. And because some of *those* flags had also been spotted on January 6th, the Times naturally ran with that as well.
But when Blitzer attempted to present that narrative to Bolton, the former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. quickly called him out.
&#8220;I first heard of the upside-down American flag as being a Jan. 6 symbol when I read about it in The New York Times about a week ago. I had no idea what was going on in Justice Alito’s wife’s mind when she flew it, but if somebody hadn’t told me that they thought it was a symbol of the Jan. 6 people, I wouldn’t have guessed it. I would have thought maybe she was giving the finger to one of her neighbors, and that may not be appropriate, either,&#8221; Bolton said.
&#8220;But, I’m telling you, it’s getting to a point where people trying to take symbols of American patriotism and turn them against Supreme Court Justices is just over the line!&#8221; Bolton continued.
&#8220;But should a U.S. Supreme Court justice be using these flags that clearly, right now at least, have some political implications, as well as some history there. But, currently, they have political implications,&#8221; Blitzer pushed back, parroting the narrative.
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&#8220;They do not! That’s just wrong! That is just wrong!&#8221; Bolton protested.
Blitzer was insistent: &#8220;Well, they do have political implications, both of these flags.&#8221;
&#8220;It can’t — you — well, they don’t have political implications to me!&#8221; Bolton said.
&#8220;And they’re involved in Jan. 6,&#8221; Blitzer said, as if that was the deciding factor.
&#8220;A lot of things were used by Jan. 6!&#8221; Bolton observed.
&#8220;Turning the U.S. flag upside down was used by those who supported the insurrection, as you know, and this other flag —&#8221; Blitzer tried again.
&#8220;No! I did not know that! I didn’t know that ’til I read it in The New York Times!&#8221; Bolton said again.
&#8220;Well, a lot of people did know that, and that’s why it’s controversial,&#8221; Blitzer kept hammering the point.
&#8220;Well, it’s controversial for liberals! No, listen, Wolf! It’s controversial for liberals who have it in for Sam Alito,&#8221; Bolton turned the argument on the CNN anchor. &#8220;It’s not controversial for me, and I’m as against Donald Trump as anybody I know in this country.&#8221;
&#8220;So, bottom line, as far as you’re concerned, he should not recuse himself for the sake of the country?&#8221; Blitzer repeated Democrat calls for Alito to recuse himself on any case related to January 6th — something they had previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/clarence-thomas-according-to-the-washington-post-is-the-black-justice-whose-rulings-often-resemble-the-thinking-of-white-conservatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attempted to accomplish</a> with Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harlan-crow-hits-back-slams-yellow-journalism-and-political-hit-job-on-his-friend-clarence-thomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clarence Thomas</a> as well.
&#8220;Wolf, that’s an unfair question. He should certainly not recuse himself; there’s no indication it was intended to support January the 6th, and I’ll tell you, those who are using this tactic against Alito now, it will come back to haunt them,&#8221; Bolton warned. &#8220;It’s an American patriotic flag. I support the right of anybody to fly it, period!&#8221;

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> upheld Republican-backed electoral maps in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/south-carolina" target="_blank" rel="noopener">South Carolina</a> in a 6-3 decision on Thursday, arguing that those suing to overturn the maps had not proven they were racially drawn.
A lower United States district court <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-upholds-gop-drawn-voting-map-south-carolina" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously</a> ruled that maps approved by the Republican-controlled South Carolina legislature were unconstitutional after they were challenged by a chapter of the NAACP and the ACLU. The majority opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, said that the district court had ruled wrongly and that the maps could stand.
“When partisanship and race correlate, it naturally follows that a map that has been gerrymandered to achieve a partisan end can look very similar to a racially gerrymandered map,” Alito <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-807_3e04.pdf#&amp;_intcmp=fnhpbt3_1,hp1bt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “In other words, the plaintiffs failed to meet the high bar for a racial-gerrymandering claim by failing to produce, among other things, an alternative map showing that a rational legislature sincerely driven by its professed partisan goals would have drawn a different map with greater racial balance.”
Alito’s decision was joined by Justices John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barret, and Brett Kavanugh, with Clarence Thomas adding a concurring opinion.
Thomas wrote that the court had no authority to be intervening in disputes over electoral districts.
“In my view, the Court has no power to decide these types of claims,” he wrote in his concurrence. “Drawing political districts is a task for politicians, not federal judges. There are no judicially manageable standards for resolving claims about districting, and, regardless, the Constitution commits those issues exclusively to the political branches.”
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The liberal wing of the court, including Justice Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, said they agreed with the lower court in their dissent and said that it was “more than plausible” that South Carolina had done race-based districting.
&#8220;In every way, the majority today stacks the deck against the Challengers. They must lose, the majority says, because the State had a &#8216;possible&#8217; story to tell about not considering race — even if the opposite story was the more credible,” they wrote.
The challenged map was already slated to be used for the 2024 election due to the ongoing court deliberations over the case.

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In yet another attempt by The New York Times to target conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the author of the decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the Times <a href="//479E6B4D-B41E-4E28-AC3A-D361DF5FB4C1/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the “Appeal to Heaven” flag, which was originally used by a squadron of frigates commissioned by George Washington at the time of the Revolutionary War, was flown at Alito’s beach house last summer.
The Times wrote that the flag, which features a pine tree, was “carried by rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021” and is “now a symbol of support for former President Donald J. Trump, for a religious strand of the ‘Stop the Steal’ campaign and for a push to remake American government in Christian terms.”
In America, prior to the Revolutionary War, England would use white pine trees from New England for the masts of their ships. King George III and the British Parliament banned colonists from chopping down white pine trees 12” in diameter or larger, which they could because the American settlers were still living on British property. In 1771, local law enforcement, at the behest of the British, arrested Ebenezer Mudgett, the owner of the Weare mill. That catalyzed the Pine Tree Riot, which is believed to inspire the later Boston Tea Party.
The Times said “several ethics experts” called the news of the flag “troubling &#8230; because it ties Justice Alito more closely to symbols associated with the attempted election subversion on Jan. 6, and because it was displayed as the obstruction case was first coming for consideration by the court.”
“Judges are not supposed to give any impression of bias, yet the flag could be seen as telegraphing the Alitos’ views,” the Times opined, then quoted a law professor from Indiana University calling it “deeply disturbing.”
Last week, the Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> of an upside-down American flag flown outside Alito’s Virginia home in 2021. Six days later, the Times published a series of letters condemning Alito in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/opinion/alito-flag.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">column</a> titled, “Justice Alito’s Blame-the-Wife Defense.”
“Alito said the saga in his neighborhood began in the days around Jan. 6, 2021, when a neighbor living down the street put up a sign that read ‘F*** Trump’ about 50 feet away from a children’s bus stop,” Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alito-wife-displayed-upside-down-flag-argument-insulting-neighbor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. “He said his wife, Martha-Ann, then spoke with those neighbors about the sign and the conversation was not well received. Alito told Fox News those neighbors then put up a sign directly attacking his wife and personally blaming her for the events that transpired on Jan. 6 at the nation’s capital.”
Alito added that a person who lived at the property with the Trump sign called his wife the “C-word” as the Alitos walked by, prompting his wife to fly the flag upside down for a short time.
In June 2023, the Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/business/media/alito-propublica-wall-street-journal.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quoted</a> people slamming The Wall Street Journal for allowing Alito to write an opinion piece in which he explained his position after the leftist outlet ProPublica had contacted him with questions about a fishing trip from 2008. The Journal published its piece before ProPublica published its piece attacking Alito. Yet the Times admitted, “Stephen Engelberg, the editor in chief of ProPublica, said in a statement on Wednesday that ProPublica always invited people mentioned in articles to offer a response before publication.”

Stop the steal and seek the truth and encourage action rally for president Trump at the State Capitol.  An appeal to heaven flag.

New York Times Targets Alito Again. This Time It’s For Revolutionary War-Era Flag.

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