Quote:A former neighbor of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said that “at worst, he’s outright lying” regarding the timeline of the upside-down American flag flown at his Virginia home.
Alito has been in the spotlight over his homes flying controversial flags, first revealed in reporting by the New York Times. The upside-down American flag, recently associated with the “Stop the Steal” movement, flew in early 2021. His New Jersey house flew an “Appeal to Heaven” flag last summer.
The justice has said his wife, Martha-Ann Alito, put up the flag at their Alexandria, Va., home over a “very nasty” neighborhood dispute, one that reportedly involved former neighbor Emily Baden.
Baden’s then-boyfriend had called law enforcement on Feb. 15, 2021, to lodge a complaint about over Martha-Ann Alito’s “unprompted” actions toward them, according to records obtained by CNN.
In an interview with CNN on Wednesday, Baden disputed the chain of events presented by Alito.
“And I just want to emphasize that the interaction that happened on February 15 is the one that they’re using as an excuse for why they flew the flag,” Baden said on “OutFront” with CNN’s Erin Burnett.
“And I really want to hammer home the fact that that happened on February 15, and their flag went up two or three weeks before that, so even if it were a valid excuse that they were having a dispute with a neighbor, and that made them put the flag up,” she continued. “That timeline just disproves it.”
“At best, he’s mistaken. But at worst, he’s just outright lying.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/4707610-ali...ghbor-cnn/
Of course, we knew that already.
