Quote:Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are asking Chief Justice John Roberts to answer a series of questions about his awareness of an upside-down American flag that flew over Justice Samuel Alito’s home.
Citing reporting from The New York Times, the letter from the two Democrats on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee asks Roberts why Alito was bumped from drafting an opinion on a case, Fischer v. U.S., that ultimately determined prosecutors had erred in indicting numerous Jan. 6, 2021, defendants on charges related to obstructing an official proceeding.
Alito had been set to handle writing the opinion, but Roberts took over four days after the Times revealed a flag associated with Trump’s efforts to block the transfer of power was flown outside Alito’s Virginia home. Alito said his wife had raised the flag because of a dispute with a neighbor.
“Your decision suggests that you recognized that Justice Alito’s partisan ideological activity called into question his impartiality with regard to the Fischer matter,” Raskin, who is the committee’s ranking member, and Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a letter obtained by The Hill.
“Yet, Justice Alito, like Justice Clarence Thomas, whose own ties to the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement are well established, was allowed to participate in the Fischer case, in violation of the Court’s institutional commitment to the principle that a Justice must ‘disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the Justice’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned.'”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/49159...erts-flag/
Of course Roberts will blow it off.
