Justice Alito neighbor says secret tapes prove he lied about flags

Dave Goldiner | New York Daily News

A neighbor of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says secret tapes prove the judge lied about controversial right-wing flags that his wife hoisted at their homes.

Emily Baden said caught-on-tape remarks leave no room for doubt that Martha-Ann Alito intentionally wanted to send political messages by flying an upside-down American flag at their Virginia home after Jan. 6 and a flag often used to support Christian nationalism at their Jersey Shore summer home.

“To hear her speak about the flags that way just solidifies what we already know, which is they are meant to display a particular political message,” Baden said on MSNBC late Wednesday. “It makes it clear what she’s doing with the flags.”

Baden, who got into a suburban shouting match in 2021 with the Alitos over her own anti-Trump yard sign, said Mary-Ann Alito’s off-the-cuff remarks prove her powerful husband wasn’t being honest when he claimed his wife had no particular political ax to grind by hoisting the flags.

“That just proves us all right that… he’s lying when he said: ‘We don’t have any reason behind it (and) we don’t know what it means,’” the neighbor said.

Mary-Ann Alito was caught on tape in blunt remarks captured by a liberal advocate posing as a conservative judicial activist.