Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another Alito Home

[RandySF]

Last summer, two years after an upside-down American flag was flown outside the Virginia home of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., another provocative symbol was displayed at his vacation house in New Jersey, according to interviews and photographs.

This time, it was the “Appeal to Heaven” flag, which, like the inverted U.S. flag, was carried by rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Also known as the Pine Tree flag, it dates back to the Revolutionary War, but largely fell into obscurity until recent years and is now a symbol of support for former President Donald J. Trump, for a religious strand of the “Stop the Steal” campaign and for a push to remake American government in Christian terms.

Three photographs obtained by The New York Times, along with accounts from a half-dozen neighbors and passers-by, show that the Appeal to Heaven flag was aloft at the Alito home on Long Beach Island in July and September of 2023. A Google street view image from late August also shows the flag.

The photographs, each taken independently, are from four different dates. It is not clear whether the flag was displayed continuously during those months or how long it was flown overall.



https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html

[Blue Owl]

1. Appealing to an imaginary, invisible place in the sky has no business in a court of law

[a kennedy]

2. I wanna know how many damn homes does he and the other Justices have??

🤬 🤬 🤬

[Model35mech]

3. Justices are not required to not exceed a minimum number of homes

that they have acquired legally, without violating non-binding ethics concerns.

[NutmegYankee]

4. I wonder if this was the origin of a question that had my reenactment group puzzled last weekend.

I am part of a Revolutionary War unit that portrays one of Col. Lamb's artillery companies, of which there were 12 total in the 2nd Continental Artillery Regiment. We fly the 'Bunker Hill' flag that is also sometimes called the 'Flag of New England' which has an Eastern White Pine symbolizing liberty. Someone came up and asked us why we were flying a Christian Nationalist flag, and we we were completely puzzled in how the hell did someone make that connection? Mind you, we are dressed in period gear, including breaches, waist coats, frock coats, and tri-corn hats, with two cannons out front that we fired every hour or so for spectators.

[MagickMuffin]

5. Someone is selling this for 495$

So, the Alito’s are fascist. Who knew!