{"id":2254256,"date":"2024-05-28T12:54:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T16:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-alito-freakout-is-a-false-flag-operation-to-take-down-the-court\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T12:56:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T16:56:46","slug":"democrats-alito-freakout-is-a-false-flag-operation-to-take-down-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-alito-freakout-is-a-false-flag-operation-to-take-down-the-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats are falsely targeting Alito to undermine the Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-alito-freakout-is-a-false-flag-operation-to-take-down-the-court%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2254256&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the unfounded calls for Justice Alito&#8217;s recusal, stemming from his wife&#8217;s flag display\u2062 incidents. It clarifies that there is no \u2064ethical\u2062 basis for recusal and highlights the historical\u200c significance of the &#8220;Appeal to Heaven&#8221; flag. The argument of bias due to the flag&#8217;s display lacks reason and fails to question Justice Alito&#8217;s impartiality. The article\u200c addresses the unjustified demands for Justice Alito&#8217;s recusal based on \u2063his wife&#8217;s flag displays. It emphasizes the absence of ethical grounds for recusal and \u2062sheds light on the historical importance of \u200cthe &#8220;Appeal to\u2064 Heaven&#8221; flag. The claim of\u2064 bias from\u200c the flag&#8217;s presentation lacks merit and does not challenge Justice Alito&#8217;s\u2064 fairness.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>                         <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>First it was Mrs. Alito\u2019s day-long flying of an upside-down American flag that Democrats said required Justice Samuel Alito to recuse from the pending Supreme Court cases involving Jan. 6 defendants and Trump\u2019s appeal concerning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-kyle-rittenhouse-could-sue-media-outlets-for-defamation\/\" title=\"Report: Kyle Rittenhouse Could Sue Media Outlets for Defamation\">presidential immunity<\/a>. Less than a week later, Democrats pounced on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/22\/us\/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">news<\/a> that an Appeal to Heaven flag hung outside the Alitos\u2019 beach house. Clearly, the conservative justice must now recuse in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-will-hear-boston-marathon-bomber-execution-case\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Will Hear Boston Marathon Bomber Execution Case\">high-profile cases<\/a>, the corrupt media declared, parroting their Democrat pals.<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, there is no basis for Justice Alito to recuse. And the only thing clear is how insane the efforts to target the Supreme Court justice have become.<\/p>\n<p>As I <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/20\/i-researched-judicial-ethics-rules-for-years-heres-why-the-alito-recusal-calls-are-ridiculous\/\">explained<\/a> last week, based on my years researching the federal codes of conduct, Mrs. Alito\u2019s flying of an upside-down American flag raised no ethical issues for Justice Alito. The Code of Conduct for Justices (as the codes of conduct that apply to federal judges and judicial employees), does not govern spouses, and a judge\u2019s only obligation is to disassociate himself or herself from his or her partner\u2019s political activities. Justice Alito did that when the story broke, making clear he had nothing to do with the flag.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Justice or Mrs. Alito flew the Appeal to Heaven flag is currently unknown \u2014 but also completely irrelevant. <\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding the concerted effort by politicians and the press to portray the flag as a symbol of \u201cStop the Steal,\u201d or Jan. 6, 2021, there was nothing inherently political about displaying the Appeal to Heaven flag. Rather, the only thing intrinsically <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/24\/the-most-dangerous-part-of-the-nyt-alito-flag-meltdown-is-the-politicization-of-patriotism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">conveyed<\/a> by the display of the flag, also known as the Pine Tree Flag, is \u201ca patriotic message of democratic resilience\u2026\u201d That flag <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=qqjzyyZjYTEC&#038;q=appeal+to+heaven#v=snippet&#038;q=appeal%2520to%2520heaven&#038;f=false\">dates<\/a> to revolutionary times, with \u201c[t]he first six schooners commissioned by the Continental Congress to intercept British ships sailing into Boston in October 1775,\u201d flying the flag on the order of George Washington\u2019s secretary.<\/p>\n<p>While some Jan. 6 protesters \u2014 like some Black Lives Matter <a href=\"https:\/\/ravenewworld.substack.com\/p\/midnight-joyride\">protesters<\/a> who took over the streets of D.C. a few months earlier \u2014 displayed the Pine Tree Flag, there is just no <em>reasonable <\/em>basis to suggest the display of an Appeal to Heaven flag represents support for some specific message, much less one that created a conflict related to the Jan. 6 and presidential immunity appeals.<\/p>\n<p>The key word here is <em>reasonable<\/em>, as the expressed language of Canon 3B(2) of the Supreme Court\u2019s Code of Conduct provides that \u201c[a] Justice should disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the Justice\u2019s impartiality might <em>reasonably<\/em> be questioned, that is, where an unbiased and reasonable person who is aware of all relevant circumstances would doubt that the Justice could fairly discharge his or her duties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No <em>reasonable<\/em> person would doubt Justice Alito\u2019s ability to fairly discharge his duties in ruling on the cases at issue because of the flying of the Pine Tree Flag at his beach house. Given the historic origins of the flag and the patriotic purpose a display of the Appeal to Heaven flag can connote, an argument of bias requires one to assume the banner meant something else and something specifically connected to the Jan. 6 protesters or Trump. But the Supreme Court\u2019s ethical rules, specifically Canon 3B(1), provide that a justice \u201cis presumed impartial.\u201d Thus, there is no case for recusal \u2014 at least no <em>reasonable<\/em> one.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats recognize this, just as they know their unjust media blitz will not prompt Alito\u2019s recusal. Unlike politicians who capitulate when faced with false narratives to avoid a firestorm of bad press, that strategy fails when aimed at the lifetime appointees of the Supreme Court \u2014 which is precisely why our founders enshrined that protection in Article III of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The contrived attacks on Justice Alito serve only one purpose: to delegitimize the Supreme Court and its forthcoming opinions. Apparently, for Democrats, questioning the integrity of our government is no longer a threat to democracy \u2014 but flying a Revolutionary War-era flag is.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Margot Cleveland is an investigative journalist and legal analyst and serves as The Federalist\u2019s senior legal correspondent. Margot\u2019s work has been published at The Wall Street Journal, The American Spectator, the New Criterion, National Review Online, Townhall.com, the Daily Signal, USA Today, and the Detroit Free Press.     She is also a regular guest on nationally syndicated radio programs and on Fox News, Fox Business, and Newsmax. Cleveland is a lawyer and a graduate of the Notre Dame Law School, where she earned the Hoynes Prize\u2014the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgetown-student-bar-association-asks-students-to-list-pronouns-in-solidarity-with-transgender-peers\/\" title=\"Georgetown Student Bar Association Asks Students to List Pronouns \u2018In Solidarity\u2019 with Transgender Peers\">law school\u2019<\/a>s highest honor. She later served for nearly 25 years as a permanent law clerk for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-ag-nominee-wont-commit-to-keeping-durham-as-special-counsel\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s AG nominee won\u2019t commit to keeping Durham as special counsel\">federal appellate judge<\/a> on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.      Cleveland is a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-media-lies-about-the-latest-special-counsel-revelations\/\" title=\"5 Media Lies About The Latest Special Counsel Revelations\">full-time university faculty member<\/a> and now teaches as an adjunct from time to time. Cleveland is also of counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance.       Cleveland is on Twitter at @ProfMJCleveland where you can read more about her greatest accomplishments\u2014her dear husband and dear son. The views expressed here are those of Cleveland in her private capacity.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initially, Democrats urged Justice Alito&#8217;s recusal over an upside-down flag. 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