Democrats and liberal media ranting and raving about Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has nothing to do with the veneration of the American flag. It is all about delegitimizing a Supreme Court over which they have no control.
Alito is being attacked over his wife (not him) briefly flying an upside-down American flag in a dispute with neighbors, and is now being attacked for flying the “Appeal to Heaven” flag, which the New York Times has decided is a pro-Jan. 6 riot symbol rather than a flag that goes back to the Revolutionary War and George Washington.
On the back of this, Democrats are demanding investigations. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called it an “extraordinary breach” and is demanding Alito recuse himself from cases. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) did the same, saying it is part of “the Court’s ongoing ethical crisis.” With that, they are giving away the game.
The wailing over Alito is about nothing more than delegitimizing the Supreme Court, just as the variety of weak attacks against Justice Clarence Thomas or the smears against then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh were about delegitimizing the Supreme Court. It is the same reason why Durbin wanted to drag Chief Justice John Roberts in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. All of this is an act, an effort to pressure the court into staying in line with the Democratic agenda because there is a 6-3 (or 5-4, depending on the issue) conservative majority that Democrats can’t control.
Unless, that is, you think Democratic politicians and their liberal media allies are very upset that Alito allegedly wasn’t showing proper respect to the American flag, which is what started this whole ridiculous news cycle. Somewhere, Colin Kaepernick is no doubt laughing at that thought.
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Democrats and liberal media have no method of controlling the Supreme Court other than public pressure. It is why Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) threatened two justices over abortion. It is why Democrats keep threatening to pack the Supreme Court. It is why they joined the media in trying to smear Kavanaugh to stop his nomination. And, it is why all of these “ethics” stories keep popping up based on flimsy premises or historical revisions, so that Democrats and the media can go around saying the court has an “ongoing ethical crisis,” as Durbin said.
Democrats and liberal media don’t care how big of fools they look for claiming any Revolutionary War symbol is insurrectionist or how hypocritical they look complaining about treatment of the American flag. All of this is to pressure the court and undermine public opinion of it because Democrats are upset they can’t push through all of their unconstitutional policies with their Democratic-appointed rubber stamps being in the court minority.