Wife of Supreme Court justice complains about having to look at a Pride flag in secret recording
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, Martha-Ann Alito, complained about having to look at a Pride flag, according to a secret recording.
Alito made the remark during the Supreme Court Historical Society’s annual dinner on June 3 to Lauren Windsor, who was posing as a conservative supporter. It comes amid a string of controversies for the conservative Supreme Court justice and his wife.
“You know what I want?” the justice’s wife said according to the recording. “I want a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag because I have to look across the lagoon at the Pride flag for the next month.”
She went on to say that after stating her need for a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag, her husband responded: “Oh, please, don’t put up a flag.”
“He’s like, ‘Oh please don’t put up a flag.’ I said, ‘I won’t do it because I’m deferring to you. But when you are free of this nonsense, I’m putting it up and I’m going to send them a message every day. Maybe every week, I’ll be changing the flags,” she said.
She added that she would come up with her own flag, which would be white with yellow and orange flames and read, in Italian, “shame.”
The secret recording of Alito was posted online late Monday by Windsor, who describes herself as a documentary filmmaker and “advocacy journalist.”
Windsor, who has previously approached conservatives including former Vice President Mike Pence, Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio and Governor Glenn Youngkin of Virginia, posted edited recordings of Alito’s remarks, as well as a separate recording of Justice Alito from the same night in which he agreed the US should “return to a place of godliness.”
“People in this country who believe in God have got to keep fighting for that — to return our country to a place of