Conservative Supreme Courtroom justice Samuel Alito’s goofy excuse for flying an inverted U.S. flag exterior his Virginia residence—that his spouse did it as a result of she was upset a couple of neighbor’s signal—has deteriorated extra swiftly than civil rights below the excessive courtroom.
In an interview with The New York Occasions, Alito neighbor Emily Baden detailed a sequence of disputes she had with Alito’s spouse, Martha-Ann, roundly debunking each a part of the Alitos’ fascist flag-loving story. Baden additionally revealed that Alito’s spouse is a little bit of a nightmare neighbor—yelling incoherently at her, spitting towards her car, accosting her, and sending a coded Christmas card to the household residence.
In keeping with receipts offered to the Occasions, the core dispute that Alito claims instigated his spouse’s choice to fly an inverted flag exterior their residence truly occurred almost a month after the flag was noticed exterior their residence.
On February 15, 2021, Baden’s then boyfriend known as the police over harassment they had been experiencing from Martha-Ann Alito, telling Fairfax County police, “Anyone ready of authority wants to speak to her and make her cease.”
In keeping with an interview Samuel Alito gave to a sympathetic Fox Information face, the Alitos had been inexplicably harassed by a male neighbor, who positioned an indication exterior straight accusing Martha-Ann Alito of inciting the January 6 Capitol riot. However as Baden tells it, Martha-Ann Alito recurrently harassed her and her accomplice, together with evident creepily from her automotive at their residence the day after the Capitol riot, the place they’d positioned indicators declaring, “Trump is a fascist” and broadly criticizing Republicans who refused to sentence the riot with an indication that learn, “You’re complicit.”
Alito, through Fox Information, additionally claimed a person hurled a vulgarity at his harmless spouse. In actuality, as confirmed by each Baden and a neighbor who witnessed the dispute, Baden is the one who shouted at Martha-Ann after she criticized a “Fuck Trump” signal positioned of their yard. Baden responded alongside the traces of, “How dare you behave this fashion. You’ve been harassing us—over indicators. You signify the very best courtroom within the land. Disgrace on you,” in response to the Occasions.
In a press release to the Occasions, Alito claimed the flag was positioned “in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard indicators.” Baden, nevertheless, says she by no means noticed the inverted flag, and it’s not viewable from her mom’s residence.
Baden additional detailed situations of Martha-Ann lingering exterior their residence, evident at them for his or her yard indicators the day after the Capitol riot. Final Christmas, Baden’s mom, Barbara, acquired a Christmas card from the Alitos that included a handwritten notice studying, “Might you will have PEACE.”
Not one of the Alitos’ skinny story explains why additionally they flew a Christian nationalist flag exterior their vacation home in New Jersey in 2023.
