{"id":1055,"date":"2024-05-29T22:07:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T22:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/alito-says-he-wont-recuse-over-flag-controversy\/"},"modified":"2024-06-02T17:29:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T17:29:38","slug":"alito-says-he-wont-recuse-over-flag-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/alito-says-he-wont-recuse-over-flag-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Alito Says He Won&#8217;t Recuse Over Flag Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. told congressional Democrats on Wednesday that he had \u201cnothing whatsoever to do with\u201d his wife\u2019s decision to fly controversial flags at\u00a0their private homes and rejected calls to recuse from pending Jan. 6 cases, including former President Donald Trump\u2019s request for immunity from criminal prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>Alito sent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/737406563\/Letter-From-Justice-Alito-to-Senators-Durbin-and-Whitehouse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a pair<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/737406562\/Letter-From-Justice-Alito-to-Congressman-Johnson-Et-Al\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">letters <\/a>to lawmakers Wednesday following\u00a0days of intense scrutiny amid reporting by The\u00a0New York Times\u00a0that his Virginia home had briefly displayed an upside-down U.S. flag in January 2021, a symbol adopted by\u00a0the \u201cStop the Steal\u201d movement of Trump supporters during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. told congressional Democrats on Wednesday that he had \u201cnothing whatsoever to do with\u201d his wife\u2019s decision to fly controversial flags at\u00a0their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1489,1492,1491,1490,916],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-alito","tag-controversy","tag-flag","tag-recuse","tag-wont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}