Alito Stands Firm

Justice Samuel Alito made it official. He will not recuse himself from any upcoming cases.

He will not surrender to the absurd demands of the neo-Marxist left because his wife flew a flag embraced by George Washington outside his beach house. He will not neglect his constitutional obligation as a justice because she also flew the American flag upside down outside of their home.

The upside-down American flag is a universal sign of distress. Who doesn’t feel distress about what’s being done to our country? It turns out that a record number of Americans -- 73% -- feel our country is “out of control.”

Open borders. Skyrocketing prices. Rising anti-Semitism. Mass gender confusion. Things are definitely out of control!

Senator Chuck Schumer infamously threatened Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. Now Senators Durbin and Whitehouse are going after Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. (I am pleased to report that Chief Justice John Roberts has refused to meet with Durbin and Whitehouse.)

The left didn’t have any issues with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Far from merely flying flags, she publicly attacked Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign and never recused herself from any related cases.

In recent decades, there have been a number of Republican appointments to the Supreme Court, and the left never demanded that they recuse themselves. Not Sandra Day O’Connor. Not David Souter. Not Anthony Kennedy.

For years, Republican presidents haphazardly nominated people for the high court who looked like conservatives but regularly ceded ground and “evolved” once they were confirmed to the court.

By the way, Samuel Alito nearly wasn’t on the Supreme Court. George W. Bush wanted to put his personal lawyer, Harriet Miers, on the court.

But some of us in the conservative movement had serious concerns about her qualifications and her total lack of a record. So, in spite of tremendous pressure from the GOP establishment, we stood up and stopped her nomination.

Only then did Bush worry about his conservative base and nominate Samuel Alito. And the rest is history.