WASHINGTON — A month ago, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito delivered a commencement speech at a Catholic college in Ohio in which he returned to a familiar theme of his: that conservative Christians are under attack from liberals in a culture war that grips the United States. He told students that both religious liberty and […]
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said she wants to get back at people who raised a controversy after she and the justice were criticized last month for flying politically affiliated flags at their homes. “You come after me, I’m gonna give it back to you,” Martha-Ann Alito said in the recording of […]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a member of the Judiciary Committee, requested information from Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito tied to an interview with The Wall Street Journal last year in which Alito questioned whether Congress has the power to impose ethics rules on the Supreme Court. In the letter made public Friday, Whitehouse, D-R.I., accused Alito […]
Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. After being found guilty on all 34 felony counts in New York last week, Donald Trump got better news this week in his other three criminal cases, as the Supreme Court’s latest opinion day passed without a ruling on his immunity claim that’s holding up the federal election interference […]
Some of Justice Samuel Alito’s central claims about why his wife raised a flag aligned with the Jan. 6 insurrection on their property are being questioned in light of recent reporting. In an interview with CNN, Emily Baden, the neighbor involved in a dispute with Alito’s wife, Martha-Ann Alito, challenged the justice’s timeline of events […]
A former neighbor of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday disputed his account of a neighborhood spat that led to the hoisting of an upside-down US flag on his property in Virginia, saying that his timeline of what happened is wrong. “At best, he’s mistaken, but at worst, he’s just outright lying,” Emily Baden […]
Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday rejected Senate Democrats’ request to meet to discuss the Supreme Court ethics firestorm surrounding Justice Samuel Alito. “I must respectfully decline your request for a meeting,” Roberts wrote to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who chairs a subcommittee on the federal courts. […]
No one expected Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from Jan. 6-related cases, despite the appearance of impropriety from flags flying at his homes that Jan. 6 rioters also carried. But his explanation Wednesday for refusing to step aside further exposes his inability or unwillingness to understand the problem with him sitting on these cases, […]
As the controversies surrounding Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito intensified, and the far-right jurist’s reputation as a biased ideologue deepened, dozens of congressional Democrats called on Alito to recuse himself in cases related to Donald Trump and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Those calls, however, were rooted in a dubious concept: The justice […]
Conservative Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito’s goofy excuse for flying an inverted U.S. flag outside his Virginia home—that his wife did it because she was upset about a neighbor’s sign—has deteriorated more swiftly than civil rights under the high court. In an interview with The New York Times, Alito neighbor Emily Baden detailed a series […]
The police in Fairfax County, Virginia, received an unusual phone call on Feb. 15, 2021. A young couple claimed they were being harassed by the wife of a Supreme Court justice. “Somebody in a position of authority needs to talk to her and make her stop,” said the 36-year-old man making the complaint, according to […]
After reports that an upside-down American flag had flown outside the Virginia residence of Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito during the period surrounding Jan. 6, 2021, the conservative justice blamed the flag’s placement on his wife Martha-Ann — claiming her actions were a result of a clash over a neighbor’s anti-Trump yard sign and a verbal […]