Flags Of Our Alitos

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote a letter to Democratic lawmakers explaining that he won’t recuse himself from ruling on two cases connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, white nationalist terrorist attack on the Capitol to reinstall the losing candidate, Trump, into the White House, but that he’s also obligated to hear the cases despite controversies over flags displayed outside his houses associated with the bullshit “Stop the Steal” movement.

The two cases are on whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution for laws he broke as president (sic) and whether a federal obstruction law covers participants in the Jan. 6 assault. He also blamed his wife, Martha, again for the flags flying outside his Fairfax and New Jersey homes. He wrote, “My wife is fond of flags. I am not.” I’m kinda surprised he didn’t offer his wife’s recusal from the cases.

This is the sort of excuse a human worm would give. Cowardly blaming it on his wife is a refusal to accept responsibility. He probably blames his farts on his dog.

Alito previously blamed the upside-down U.S. flag outside his Fairfax home on his wife’s spat with their neighbors, thus blaming the neighbors for putting signs in their yard that upset Martha Alito. Although the signs didn’t mention the Alitos, they took it personally that the signs were pro-democratic and anti-Trump fascism. How dare they.

In 2021, there were way too many Glenn Youngkin signs in my neighborhood but I didn’t declare a holy war on my neighbors. I didn’t rip down signs, I didn’t fly my own middle-finger flag, and I didn’t chase their cars down the road like a dog and spit on them. Oh, yeah…the car-spitting incident.

There’s a report while their pro-democratic neighbors were driving through their neighborhood, Martha ran the car down and appeared to spit on it. It appears Alito has also recused himself from seeking mental care for his wife.

Someone’s not getting an invite to this summer’s block party.

Previously, Alito refused to recuse himself from cases involving his sugar daddy who funded lavish fishing trips for the justice, just as Clarence Thomas has refused to recuse himself from the two cases that involve his wife.

The wives of the justices have the same First Amendment rights to free speech as we do, but if the justices are sleeping with women who are loudly buying into conspiracy theories that Trump won, are openly supporting of an insurrection, openly supportive of establishing a fundamentalist theocracy, and participated in Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election, then believing they can be impartial is a joke.

Married people can disagree with their spouses, but we’re not talking about new teal linoleum in the bathroom. Who really believes either of these justices will issue a decision their wives will disagree with? In fact, we already know exactly how both will rule on these cases.

These justices shouldn’t just recuse from these cases…they should recuse from the Supreme Court.

Creative note: This cartoon was drawn on the train from Fredericksburg to the Baltimore airport and at the airport on a desk at my gate. The blog was written at a restaurant called Mustard Seed on the D Concourse in Atlanta.

My train changed engines long enough at Union Station in Washington, DC, giving me enough time to get off and buy a mocha. I asked a nice Canadian family to watch my stuff while I was gone. I figured since they were Canadians, then they would be too nice to steal my stuff. While buying my mocha, I got them some cookies to thank them. And then I stole their stuff.

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