“I want to go home, get in my own bed and cry,” said one person who has been in the vice president’s orbit since her first run for president.
Courts
May 29, 2024
Justice Alito Says He Won’t Recuse Himself Over Flag Incidents
Justice Samuel Alito sent a letter to Sens. Dick Durbin and Sheldon Whitehouse on Wednesday telling them he won’t be recusing himself, as they requested, for Supreme Court cases pertaining to Jan. 6 or the 2020 election. Alito, who’s wrapped up in a controversy over his wife flying controversial flags connected to Jan. 6 rioters and the Christian nationalist movement, said his wife is a private citizen who decided on her own to fly those flags. A “reasonable person,” Alito said, would conclude that his wife’s flag practices “do not meet the applicable standard for recusal.”