Justice Alito’s wife caught on tape sharing her design for an anti-Pride ‘shame’ flag
“Appeal to Heaven” flag outside a holiday home in New Jersey last summer. The “Appeal to Heaven” flag was formerly associated with the Revolutionary War.
However, it too is now more commonly associated with right-wing protests and Christian nationalism.Justice Alito has basically blamed it all on his wife.
He says the upside-down flag was down to a dispute she was having with a neighbor. They put an anti-Trump sign on their lawn.“I had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag,” Alito said in a statement. “It was briefly placed by Mrs Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.”Alito later told Fox News anchor Shannon Bream that a neighbor called his wife an expletive, which is why she flew a US flag upside down.According to the Washington Post, Martha-Ann Alito told one of their reporters in 2021 that she had flown the flag as “an international signal of distress”.
The reporter had visited the home when the flag was flying and asked Mrs Alito about it. The outlet chose not to report on it then but has since printed the comments after the controversy over the flag blew up.Now, the Alitos are finding themselves in hot water again.A progressive filmmaker, Lauren Windsor, attended an event and secretly recorded her conversations with both Alitos.