AOC slammed for attempting to smear Justice Alito in taunt to Marjorie Taylor Greene

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., took heat on social media for smearing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito while going after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., over an X post.

The congresswoman from the Bronx slammed Greene’s upside-down American flag post that she shared in reaction to former President Donald Trump’s New York trial conviction. Ocasio-Cortez wondered if Alito inspired Greene's statement.

"Who did you learn that from, Samuel Alito?" the lawmaker commented on Greene’s post on Thursday.

Greene had shared the image after Trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records, as a way of characterizing the verdict as an injustice of the American rule of law.

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The upside-down flag had become controversial in recent weeks after The New York Times reported that it had been flying at Alito’s Virginia home around the time of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

The Times piece attempted to use the flag to link Alito to pro-Trump election deniers, describing it as a symbol adopted by some Trump supporters disputing the results of the 2020 presidential election.

However, the Washington Post seemed to shoot down the Times' narrative, noting, "The Post decided not to report on the episode at the time because the flag-raising appeared to be the work of Martha-Ann Alito,