WASHINGTON — Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin, D-Ill., reiterated to reporters Monday that he wants Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself after The New York Times reported that an upside-down American flag hung outside his home in mid-January 2021. But Durbin said he doesn’t plan to hold an inquiry. “No, we haven’t […]
WASHINGTON ― Republican senators criticized Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito over the flying of an upside-down American flag at his house following the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building. “Emotions are apparently high in that neighborhood but no, it’s not good judgment to do that,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, the top Republican on […]
The Supreme Court is facing an enormous ethical crisis, MSNBC host and former Joe Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on her show Sunday. After citing recent reports that Justice Samuel Alito kept an upside-down American flag outside his home following the 2020 election — a symbol commonly used at the time to […]
An upside-down U.S. flag has long been a sign of dire distress and versatile symbol of protest. But in January 2021, when it flew over the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, it was largely seen in connection with a specific cause: the false claim by then-President Donald Trump’s supporters that the 2020 election […]
It has been a widely recognized symbol of distress since the nation’s founding, when sailors turned the American flag upside down to signal that their ships were sinking, on fire or trapped in ice. But over time, the upside-down American flag became a symbol brandished more often by protesters across the political spectrum to signal […]
The iconic, “upside-down” baobab tree first emerged on the island of Madagascar, new research into its tangled evolutionary history reveals. It’s still not clear, however, how it jumped from Madagascar to Australia. The majestic baobab tree can grow to heights of 82 feet (25 meters) and can live thousands of years. It is often dubbed […]
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Friday that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito should recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 election after a new report said an upside-down American flag flew outside his home in the days after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and before President Joe […]
An upside-down American flag was reportedly spotted flying outside the home of the conservative US supreme court justice Samuel Alito during the closing days of Donald Trump’s presidential term in 2021. The inverted flag is a symbol that has become associated with Trump’s false claims that Joe Biden stole the election. Used by some Trump […]
Ten days after making the first moon landing for Japan, the SLIM moon lander is suddenly awake again after arriving upside-down. Mission operators with SLIM, or the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon mission, successfully made the first moon landing for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Jan. 19. SLIM’s solar panels, however, were in […]
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Company shared the first image of its lander on the lunar surface, revealing that the spacecraft touched down on the moon upside-down. It’s a remarkable recovery for the spacecraft, which experienced an “abnormality in the main engine” that affecting the landing orientation when it was just 50 meters above the lunar […]