Alito’s Wife: Flag Was “International Signal Of Distress”

The Washington Post reports:

The wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. told a Washington Post reporter in January 2021 that an upside-down American flag recently flown on their flagpole was “an international signal of distress” and indicated that it had been raised in response to a neighborhood dispute. Martha-Ann Alito made the comments when the reporter went to the couple’s Fairfax County, Va., home to follow up on a tip about the flag, which was no longer flying when he arrived.

The incident documented by reporter Robert Barnes, who covered the Supreme Court for The Post for 17 years and retired last year, offers fresh details about the raising of the flag and the first account of comments about it by the justice’s wife. The Post decided not to report on the episode at the time because the flag-raising appeared to be the work of Martha-Ann Alito, rather than the justice, and connected to a dispute with her neighbors.

Read the full article. According to the Post, when Barnes approached the couple to inquire about the flag, “visibly upset” Martha-Ann told him to “get off our property.” There’s more. Gift link here.

Martha-Ann Alito told The Post in 2021 that flag was ‘signal of distress’ – The Washington Post https://t.co/XBHQM31J0c

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) May 25, 2024