The backlash is mounting after The New York Times reported last week that an upside-down flag flew outside the house of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito ahead of President Biden’s inauguration in January 2021. On Tuesday, a coalition of over 40 House Democrats sent a letter to Alito calling for the justice to recuse himself from cases pertaining to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. The letter was obtained by HuffPost.
“Even if you had ‘no involvement’ in the display yourself, the fact of such a political statement at your home creates, at minimum, the appearance of improper political bias,” reads the letter, which adds that “reasonable people will doubt” Alito can be impartial when ruling on cases about whether “Mr. Trump should face criminal prosecution for his actions arising from the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement.”
As the Times noted in its report,…
