Washington – Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito told Fox News on Friday that his wife complained of insults from neighbors over an upside-down American flag that was displayed outside their home in the days following the Jan. 6 protests at the Capitol. He said he put it up in response to the
Alito weighed in after The New York Times first reported the story on Thursday. Among them, an upside-down flag, a symbol adopted by some Trump supporters to contest the results of the 2020 presidential election, reportedly appeared outside Alito’s home in Alexandria, Virginia. January 17, 2021.
Alito said the neighborhood disturbance began around Jan. 6, 2021, when a neighbor who lives down the street posted a sign that read “F— Trump” about 50 feet from a children’s bus stop. He said it started on the day.
He said his wife, Martha Ann, then told neighbors about the sign, but the response was not positive.
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Alito told Fox News that neighbors then directly attacked his wife and put up signs personally condemning the events of January 6 in the nation’s capital.
He said that while he and his wife were walking around the neighborhood, a man who lived on the property where the sign was located got into an argument with his wife, at one point calling her derogatory language “including the C-word.”
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife Martha Ann attend the swearing-in ceremony in the East Room of the White House in February 2006. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
After the incident, Alito said Martha-Ann was distraught and decided to make a statement by hanging an American flag upside down outside her home.
Alito told Fox News that he had no role in deciding on the flag and that it was only flown outside the grounds for a “short period of time.”
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He added that he didn’t feel he had the right or ability to control or dictate things around his wife, and that some of his neighbors down the street were “very political.”
The story about the flag outside Alito’s home came to light as the Supreme Court was deciding former President Trump’s immunity suit.
