Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said on May 29 that he will not recuse from cases involving the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach or former President Donald Trump.
Democrats, including top senators, recently urged Justice Alito to recuse after it was found an upside-down American flag flew outside his home and a historical “Appeal to Heaven” flag flew at his beach house.
Because the flags have been flown by people who assert the 2020 election was rife with fraud, Justice Alito “clearly created an appearance of impropriety in violation of the Code of Conduct for Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States” and “created reasonable doubt as to his impartiality in certain proceedings, thereby requiring his disqualification in those proceedings,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) told Chief Justice John Roberts in a recent letter….
