Washington Post: Upside-down flag flew at Justice Alito’s house after neighbor dispute - Alliance for Justice

Washington Post: Upside-down flag flew at Justice Alito’s house after neighbor dispute

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Justin Jouvenal and Ann E. Marimow

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This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on May 17, 2024.

Court employees are regularly reminded that they may not publicly support or oppose a partisan organization or candidate, including through the display of “signs or bumper stickers, or stating positions on social media,” according to the court’s human resources manual.

Rakim H.D. Brooks, president of the liberal advocacy group Alliance for Justice and a former law clerk to Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh during his D.C. Circuit tenure, said in a statement Friday that it does not matter whether it was Alito or his wife who flew the flag on the couple’s property so long as the justice knew it was being flown and did nothing to stop it.

“Supreme Court justices are supposed to be the ultimate guardians of our Constitution,” Brooks said in a statement that called on Alito to recuse from any case related to Trump or the Jan. 6 attack.

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