Melissa Murray, a legal expert for MSNBC, criticized Justice Samuel Alito for not recusing himself from cases related to January 6 after it was reported that protesters flew flags at his home.
The New York Times said that Alito’s home in Alexandria, Virginia, flew an upside-down American flag three days before Joe Biden’s inauguration. Another sign used by people who don’t believe in the 2020 election was flown outside of his New Jersey beach house. The judge says that his wife Martha-Ann Alito put up the signs and flew the flag upside down to show that she was upset after a fight with a neighbor. But a story in The New York Times on Tuesday that included a text message and a phone call from the neighbor in question shows that this is not true.
The Supreme Court is likely to decide on two issues that have to do with January 6. One is about former President Donald Trump’s claim that a president can’t be charged with crimes he committed while in office. Another case is about whether Trump and the rioters at the Capitol can be charged under a law that makes it illegal to “corruptly” block an official process.
Libertarians had asked Alito to stay out of the cases, but in a letter sent to members of Congress on Wednesday, he said, in part, “My wife likes flying flags.” “I’m not.”
Murray said on Wednesday’s episode of The ReidOut, “There’s a lot here.” “First, this letter is supposed to be sent to Congress.” It’s a big “f-you” to the people of the United States. This man isn’t just saying that he doesn’t like flying flags, but his wife does. He’s making fun of Americans who know that he wrote the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that took away the constitutional right to have an abortion. “That right that Roe v. Wade made clear.”
Murray then said that Alito’s letter stressed that his wife had the freedom to choose.
“He wrote that decision [in Dobbs], and three times he talks about his wife as a private citizen with rights, rights that let her “make decisions that he has always honored and supports her choices to do so,” she talked about. “Once more, this is the same man who took away the right of millions of American women to make their own body choices.” This letter is a joke, a big “f-you” to the people of the United States.
Murray then pointed out that, like Alito, Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife has also gotten bad press for her husband.
“What is wrong with these conservative justices that they can’t keep their wives in line?” He asked Murray. “Ginni Thomas can text Mark Meadows even though there is an uprising going on,” said Clarence Thomas. Alito, the judge, can’t seem to stop Martha-Ann from raising the American flag backward at their house. However, they have chosen to write opinions that try to control every other woman in the United States. “Like, what’s going on?”
Murray concluded that Alito is “for choice for flags but not for other choices.”
