This is the greatest piece of neolib pearl clutching:
As I have stated publicly, I had noting whatsoever to do with the flying of that flag. I was not even aware of the upside-down flag until it was called to my attention. As soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for severals days, she refused.
My wife and I own our Virginia home jointly. She therefore has the legal right to use the property as she sees fit, and there were no additional steps that I could have taken to have the flag taken down more promptly.
Let's take this at face value. People make sacrifices for their spouses every day. Whether it's picking up the kids from school when it's not your day, moving to a new state because your spouse got a new job, or moving across the country because your spouse got new orders.
I'm sorry, when you're the wife of a Supreme Court justice, you can't spit at your neighbor and desecrate the American flag. Too bad.
My wife's reasons for flying the flag are not relevant for present purposes, but I note that she was greatly distressed at the time...
This is a Supreme Court justice saying "women, am I right?"
I am confident that a reasonable person who is not motivated by political or ideological considerations or a desire to affect the outcome of Supreme Court cases would conclude that the events recounted above to not meet the applicable standard for recusal. I am therefore required to reject your request.
This is a Supreme Court justice saying "If you don't agree with me, you're crazy". This is a Supreme Court justice calling us buttholes.
As I said in reference to the other flag event, my wife is an independently minded private citizen. She makes her own decisions, and I honor her right to do so.
Alito wrote the Dobbs decision.
By the way, here's Donald Trump encouraging this behavior:
Desecrate the flag? Lmao
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Seems part of a coordinated strategy to portray the Supreme Court as biased and corrupt. First they were freaking out about Thomas attending some Federalist Society events or some shit and now this.
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Tbh some smart conservatards are probably salivating at the prospect the libs make this new unforced error, the rightoid version of a puppet court would make them coom.
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It is, its why the NYT is lying about what the flags mean. "Associated with 'Stop the Steal'" outside of a few publications noting that it was flown upside down at Jan 6, I've yet to see a contemporary article demonstrating it was a widespread symbol.
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probably something she saw on a Facebook meme and decided to do it
but everything has to be a J6 conspiracy
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I always just assumed that the median NYT reader was at least smart enough to see through this type of obvious bullshit. Yeah, a lot of them are turbolibs but it takes an insanely uncharitable interpretation and legit bad faith (
) interpretation to conclude that flying the flag upside down means you're tacitly signalling support for the capitol riot. 
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