A US Supreme Court justice faced calls on Friday to recuse himself from cases involving Donald Trump after an inverted American flag — a symbol of the former president’s false election fraud claims — was flown outside his home.
A January 2021 photograph of the upside-down flag outside the Alexandria, Virginia house of archconservative Justice Samuel Alito was published by The New York Times on Thursday.
The report has intensified scrutiny of the conservative-dominated nation’s highest court as it prepares to rule on the scope of the former president’s immunity from prosecution.
In a statement to the newspaper, the 74-year-old Alito said he “had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag,” which was displayed in the weeks…
