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The Alitos, the neighborhood clash and the upside-down flag (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Inside the escalating conflict on a bucolic suburban street that Justice Alito said prompted a “Stop the Steal” symbol at his home.

The police in Fairfax County, Va., received an unusual phone call on Feb. 15, 2021. A young couple claimed they were being harassed by the wife of a Supreme Court justice.

“Somebody in a position of authority needs to talk to her and make her stop,” said the 36-year-old man making the complaint, according to a recording of the call reviewed by The New York Times. The officer on the line responded that there was little the police could do: Yelling was not a crime.

The couple placed the call after a series of encounters with Martha-Ann Alito, wife of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., that had gone from uneasy to ugly. That day, Emily Baden, whose boyfriend (now husband) contacted the police, had traded accusations with Mrs. Alito, who lived down the street. In a recent interview, Ms. Baden admitted to calling her a lewd epithet.

The clash between the wife of a conservative Supreme Court justice and the couple, who were in their 30s, liberal and proud of it, played out over months on a bucolic block in Alexandria. It was the kind of shouting match among private citizens, at the height of tensions over the 2020 election, that might have happened in any mixed political community in America. But three years later, that neighborhood spat — which both sides said began over an anti-Trump sign — has taken on far greater proportions.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Important to Note:

The original photo of the flag is dated January 17th.

The call made by the neighbors about the dispute was February 15th.

Alito's claim his wife put it up in response to this neighborhood dispute is already clearly a fucking lie that the media is just letting him get away with instead of calling a spade a fucking spade.

We know it's a lie because the flag was put up nearly a month before the noted dispute.

Just like the leaked Hobby Lobby decision, it doesn't matter what evidence there is, Alito is allowed to lie to the public with impunity because our press won't do it's fucking job.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Always a victim. Even if you’re a judge on the highest court of the land… you are a “victim” at the hands of those you judge.

They were clearly forced to act this way! They have no agency.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They are both angry boomer assholes. That sounds about right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Young liberals are "fascist" for existing.

Yup, sounds about right for fucking unhinged ass boomers.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Still waiting to hear your “justification” for this one, Justice:

The conflict in the Virginia neighborhood does not explain why a second flag associated with the Jan. 6 riot, as well as with a Christian nationalist movement, later flew at the Alitos’ New Jersey beach house. The justice has offered no explanation for that flag, which The Times reported on last week.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

His response will be to throw his wife under the bus.

Again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Omg look at that Karen haircut.