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For all the squawking from Democrats that Donald Trump is a “threat to democracy,” their relentless attacks on the Supreme Court are the gravest threat to the republic.
This week’s target is Justice Samuel Alito, whose crime is having a wife who is “fond of flying flags,” as he put it in a droll letter Wednesday to Biden allies in the Senate who are demanding he recuse himself from two Trump special-counsel cases.
As Joe Biden languishes in the polls, and the New York hush-money trial has done nothing to dent Trump’s electoral appeal, Dems are trying ever more dastardly ploys to sabotage the Republican’s campaign.
Manufacturing a scandal out of flags flown by Alito’s wife, Martha-Ann, outside their home is their pathetic attempt to force the Supreme Court to deliver a favorable outcome in the lawfare cases they are counting on to give Biden an unfair advantage in November.
They are desperate to tilt the court in their favor by cutting down Alito and fellow formidable conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, whose wife is also being used to damage him.
Harassment campaign
The New York Times was more than happy to oblige by sending a reporter to muckrake around Alito’s neighbors in suburban Virginia and dredge up evidence of his wife’s flag-raising villainy.
Turns out the Alitos have some very unpleasant neighbors.
The 35-year-old BLM activist daughter of a retired PBS executive who lives down the road decided to move into her mother’s house with her boyfriend and their “pandemic puppy” in 2020 and then proceeded to torment the Alitos.
Her campaign of harassment included picketing their house with signs saying, “Abort SCOTUS,” “Fascist Alito” and “Alito was @ Jan 6,” plastering her mother’s front yard (near a school) with political signs like “F–K Trump,” “Trump Is a Fascist” and “You Are Complicit.” One day the daughter, or her boyfriend, called Mrs. Alito a “c–t.”
Martha-Ann Alito was understandably distressed about the harassment campaign.
So what dastardly deed did she commit in response?
She hoisted an upside-down flag outside their home, a traditional symbol of distress that Biden allies now claim is nothing but a symbol of the “Stop the Steal” campaign.
The intrepid New York Times also delivered the incredible scoop that Mrs. Alito hoisted the perfectly uncontroversial “Appeal to Heaven” flag outside their vacation home in New Jersey.
The historical pine tree flag originally was flown from George Washington’s ships during the Revolutionary War, but the Times and its Democrat handlers have recast it as a dangerous “insurrectionist symbol,” having found that it was sighted in the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6.
The Internet has been hastily rewritten to portray the flag as malign, and liberal venues such as the San Francisco City Hall, which had happily flown the flag in its Civic Center Plaza since 1964, quietly removed it over the weekend, all the better to tar the Alitos with the insurrectionist brush.
It’s exactly this kind of frenzied propaganda that resulted in an assassination attempt on Justice Brett Kavanagh after the Dobbs decision was leaked and nonstop illegal picketing outside the homes of the conservative justices.
Democrats have no compunctions about flirting with assassination incitement when it comes to Trump. The latest culprit is pulp-fiction writer John Grisham, who appeared on ABC’s ‘The View” this week to fantasize about killing judges.
“I wrote a great book called ‘The Pelican Brief’ in which two Supreme Court justices were assassinated,” he said, “and I thought about doing it again.”
‘Don’t get upset’
Joy Behar realized his glee might get them into trouble.
“No, no, no,” she said as the audience laughed along.
“Writing part two,” interjected Whoopi Goldberg.
“He’s talking about writing part two.”
“It’s all fiction,” said Grisham, disingenuously.
“Don’t get upset.”
Then he opined that “the court has never looked as bad in my lifetime, some of the rulings, the ethical challenges.”
What are the ethics of going on national television and joking about assassinating Supreme Court justices?
In his letter to Senate Democrats Dick Durbin and Sheldon Whitehouse, Justice Alito said he was not obliged to recuse himself and explained he had nothing to do with the flying of the upside-down flag.
When he asked his wife to take it down, she refused.