Martha-Ann Alito, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito‘s wife, asserted from the beginning that her display of an upside-down American flag was meant as a “signal of distress.”
A since-retired Washington Post reporter included coverage of an exchange shared with Alito on the day of President Joe Biden’s inauguration in a report published Saturday. She brushed off any questions regarding the flag, which at the time was not flying upside down, claiming, “It’s an international signal of distress.” Her husband recently explained that it was born out of a confrontation with their neighbor.
“Ask them what they did,” she told the reporter, in reference to the neighbor.
The Alitos’ neighbors had put out yard signs with crude language in their cul-de-sac, near where a bus drops off school-aged children. Alito hung the
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