Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., requested a meeting last week with Chief Justice John Roberts to demand Justice Samuel Alito be removed from cases central to the Democrats’ fall campaign strategy. Alito, Durbin wrote in a joint letter with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., apparently disqualified himself from ruling on issues related to former President Donald Trump because the conservative justice flew a pair of flags Democrats don’t like.
The lawmakers’ letter cited a series of stories by The New York Times this month that set in motion the far left’s latest efforts to undermine the legitimacy of the last remaining institution to stand in the way of Democrats’ agenda. The Times reported that an upside-down American flag briefly flew at Alito’s Virginia residence in January 2021, and there was an “Appeal to Heaven” banner at his New Jersey home in Long Beach Island last summer.
The former was flown by his wife over a dispute with a neighbor who erected an anti-Trump sign, and the latter, also known as the Pine Tree flag, is an iconic emblem of appealing to a higher power with roots in the American Revolution. The Pine Tree flag was designed by George Washington’s personal secretary, and it flew outside the San Francisco City Hall last year.
FLAGS: The video of the “An Appeal to Heaven” flag over San Francisco City Hall was taken on Feb. 11, 2023.
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According to The New York Times, however, both banners
