Recent Attacks Against Alito Are Baseless.
Democrats latest flag hoax against Justice Alito is designed to rig future decisions and further corruptly delegitimize a co-equal branch of government.
For the last few weeks, Democrats and their pals (stenographers) in the “Media” have manufactured a hoax against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Since Trump was elected in 2016, the hoaxes from the Democrats have become both more prevalent and, correspondingly, weaker. At this juncture, one needs little more than common sense to debunk them without effort or research. This is one aspect of them that makes them all the more terrifying—the fact that Democrats have increased the use of them is a sign that our population is rapidly becoming less informed and less rational.
At this juncture it is plain that the Supreme Court Hoax, which the Alito Flag Hoax is a part, has two primary goals. First, to put improper pressure on the Supreme Court to alter its rulings to what the Left prefers. Secondly, and more importantly, it is a direct assault on the Constitution itself. In this regard, the attacks on the Supreme Court mirror the daily attacks on other elements of the Constitution, all having the same goal—to cause the average American to accept a more “democratized” version of government where “elected” officials may do as they please. Again, these are just the primary goals of the scheme, they are many, many secondary goals such as continuing to push the January 6 “Insurrection” Hoax.
Before debunking the idiotic Alito Flag Hoax, it is important to appreciate a couple of the devious elements about its timing. To begin with, it started with something Alito’s wife did in January of 2021. Imagine sitting on a story for three years and four months to “just the right time” to spring it. In addition, imagine waiting months and months into the Supreme Court’s current term for “just the right time” to spring it to influence a justice’s vote on a key cases or cases. In this instance, Democrats and their “journalists” scribes have done both. While it is impossible to know which decision the hecklers wish to influence, in all likelihood it is the Court’s decision on Presidential Immunity.
A cursory review of the allegations reveal that the claims against Justice Alito are baseless. Indeed, they are so devoid of merit that one should expect some penalty for those that instigated the claims and amplified them. Unfortunately, we are far past that point, which is one of the reasons these absurd hoaxes continue to flourish in our political environment.
The initial allegations were that the Alito primary home flew an upside down flag in the weeks following the January 6 protests and that this symbol was also used by protesters on January 6. Later allegations that an “Appeal to Heaven” flag was flown at another Alito home were soon coupled with the initial allegations. At the outset of the upside down flag allegations, Democrats swiftly called on Justice Alito to recuse from any case concerning January 6, with some claiming he should resign his seat or be impeached.
It should be obvious to any American that holding a political viewpoint is not a basis for recusal, resignation, or impeachment. Based on the reaction to this moronic hoax, apparently it is not.
It should be. Consider, for example, whether Leftists Justices recuse themselves from abortion cases. They do not. Plainly we know their viewpoint. Notwithstanding this fact, they do not recuse. And no one suggests that they should. Alito’s political viewpoints are no different. That should end the matter.
It does not end the matter because Democrats no longer abide by Constitution, the Rule of Law, or even common decency. Indeed, as explained above, this Hoax is in large part an attack on the Constitution and the Rule of Law. Here is how.
The Constitution provides that the Supreme Court is a co-equal branch of government, equal to the Legislative Branch and Executive Branch. To maintain this equality, the Founders provided two ways in which the Legislative Branch could exercise some level of control of it—it may determine the number of members of the Court in addition to the Chief Justice and Justices may be impeached. If not impeached, justices serve “lifetime” appointments and, thus, are only removed via death or resignation (remember this, it is important).
Which brings us back to the Alito Flag Hoax as part of the overall Supreme Court Hoax. Democrats desire to alto the Constitutional order by providing other manners of controlling the Supreme Court. Thus, for example, many Democrats have proposed a “judicial code of ethics” for Justices. Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin has been spearheading this effort by, among other things, continually (and corruptly) smearing Justices regularly and on more than one occasion introducing legislation to regulate the court. It obviously would be unconstitutional for one Branch of government to “regulate” another. The Supreme Court is not a co-equal Branch if it can be “regulated” by the Legislative Branch.
But there lies the point. Democrats wish to “regulate” the Supreme Court because it wants to control it. Not only could an “ethics code” be used to “regulate” the Court, it also would provide ample opportunity to baseless impeachment inquiries. The transparency of the plot, however, has done little to nothing to keep Democrats from continuing to push it. Similarly, the average American seemingly can be bother to consider why no Congress in our history has ever proposed to regulate the Supreme Court. Indeed, while Congress has regulated lower courts, it has never before now attempted to include the Supreme Court.
Indeed, even if the current code for lower judges applied to the Supreme Court were applied to Alito, he would not be required to recuse. 28 U.S. Code § 455 provides for a judge to recuse if he or she has (a) personal bias against a party, (b) served in the proceeding, (c) has a financial interest in the outcome, or (d) “he or his spouse, or a person within the third degree of relationship to” any party. Not one of these elements can be proven with respect to Alito and none has even been suggested.
The worst part, however, is that we do not even know what Justice Alito’s political viewpoint is because shortly after the (fake) story broke, it was revealed that the both flags were flown at the direction of Mrs. Alito. So, political viewpoint is no basis for recusal and we have no evidence of his viewpoint. One would think that such an obviously idiotic baseless could not get any traction in our political mainstream. Yet it did.
Well, perhaps that was not the worst part. One needed to not just read Mrs. Alito’s mind to know what she mean by flying flags, but then to quickly associate her flying the flag upside down to the supposed fact that some persons at the January 6 rally also flew the flag upside down. From there, one is not sure where one is supposed to travel. After all, the people on January 6 wore pants and all of us wear pants on occasion. They (well, some) combed their hair. But Democrats and the “Media” long rigged this system because your objective intent no longer matters. All that matters is what some Leftist can subjectively claim you meant.
This tells us a lot about the current state of “politics.” The current “Media” literally manufactures narratives (mostly complete hoaxes) to attempt to mislead or outright fool the public to get Democrats “elected” so that can dismantle our Constitutional Republic. The Alito Flag Hoax is the latest example.
At this juncture, Democrats are not even pretending that the point of the latest Hoax is to dismantle a Branch of government with which it is at odds and to influence future opinions. Thus, just yesterday, one of the founders of the Legal Lie Machine, Harvard Professor Lawrence Tribe tweeted:
Tribe said the quiet part out loud—the Alito Flag Hoax is in part to get Alito to recuse so that Presidential Immunity is eliminated from the Constitution. This is possible because fascist Democrats judges below all ruled in ridiculous “opinions” that Presidential Immunity does not exist. Actually, as we have explained, it plainly does. No matter. Tribe’s tweet is proof positive of the evil plot against an innocent Justice.
On cue, another one of the usual suspects, fascist Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse proudly tweeted about Democrats regulating the Supreme Court, something that before the Trump Era would have been laughably frivolous. Whitehouse, and many, many other Democrats, daily push the obviously Constitutional notion that the Supreme Court may be “regulated.” This brainwashing scheme to destroy the Constitutional order receives zero pushback from the compliant “Media.”
So we once again have witnessed a news cycle that is dominated not only a hoax, but a ridiculously baseless one at that. For the past few years, this has been a consistent occurrence—Democrats manufacture baseless, evidence free narratives and hoaxes and those of us with platforms spend most of our time debunking them. Sadly, it appears that the Left is winning and America daily becomes less inclined towards Constitutional government. We all know where unchecked governmental power leads and this is precisely where Democrats are headed.
And just in case there was any doubt remaining, if you follow the Left as I do, they are quite clear about their devotion to fascism. This tweet from activist Andrew Seidel says the quite part out loud:
It is unlikely that Chairman Durbin will resurrect Crooked Joe Biden’s “high tech lynching” strategy. After all, these hoaxes work more efficiently the less people know about them. However, the mindset of the hive mind is on display.
And so it goes. Something needs to happen to change the course of our future and, to date, nothing has. Whatever that thing is, it must concern the manner in which we digest our information. This latest hoax truly revealed how cancerously sick that system is at the moment.
Just wantied to point out that this post is wrong about the power Congress has. One can argue what they are doing exceeds their authority but not that the the legislative branch is not only limited to impeachment and number of justices. The exceptions clause gives significant power over jurisdiction and proceedings for the Supreme Corut