Current Events > McConnell on Alito flying flag upside down: "Leave SC alone"

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https://newrepublic.com/post/181795/mitch-mcconnell-thinks-alitos-insurrectionist-flag-just-fine

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell apparently has no issue with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alitos decision to fly a symbol of the insurrection shortly after the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

Images published on Friday revealed that the conservative justice had flown the upside-down flaga symbol of Donald Trumps Stop the Steal effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election resultsat his home in Alexandria, Virginia, in the immediate aftermath of the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The photographic evidence has since sparked questions about Alitos impartiality on the nations highest courtbut none of that seemed to bother McConnell, who appeared to suggest Tuesday that examining the courts ethics was an unnecessary attack on the judiciary.

It seems to me there are nonstop attacks on the Supreme Court, week after week after week, so Im not going to dignify that with a response, McConnell said, responding to a direct question on the issue from CNNs Manu Raju.

We need to leave the Supreme Court alone, protect them from people who went into their neighborhoods and tried to do them harm, look out for the Supreme Courtthats part of the job of the administration, McConnell added.

But thats not the position McConnell took in the months following January 6. McConnell has privately and publicly criticized Trump for his role in the riots, including denying that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and saying that the mob was provoked by the president and other powerful people.

Meanwhile, other conservative leaders in the upper chamber have had no problem shutting down Alitos symbolic declaration, including Senator Lindsey Graham, who described the flag choice as not good judgment.

He said his wife was insulted and got madassume that to be truebut hes still a supreme court justice, Graham told HuffPosts Igor Bobic on Monday. And, you know, people have to realize that moments like that, to think it through.

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The sack of shit who hijacked the USSC to turn it into the right-wing extremist farce we have today cries about how they're "attacked" (verbally) on a weekly basis and says they need to be left alone.

Yeah, I bet you do think they should be left alone after stealing it for your own twisted desires, you fascist fuck.

No, I don't think I will.

"Leave SCOTUS alone so it can rule as its owners (i.e., Leonard Leo) want it to" -- McConnell.

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These fucking people, I swear to god

Mitch speaking about it proves there is something there.

The other GOP Senator comments were even more infuriating, frankly.

SC: "Let me spend decades chasing clout by going to high-priced donor events and schmoozing with politicians and business people"

Also SC: "Leave us alone!"

all I'm gonna say about the supreme court is the number 2

let them serve for life and also don't criticize them at all

what could possibly go wrong?

Kimberly posted...

The other GOP Senator comments were even more infuriating, frankly.

Who was that? Don't think I've heard about it.

Traitor scum.

Kradek posted...

Who was that? Don't think I've heard about it.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/21/politics/republican-senators-alito-upside-down-flag/index.html

Sorry for the delay, I got sidetracked lol

Wow. Tone deaf doesn't even begin to describe it. But that's par for the course for Mitch the Bitch.

"Be silent as we continue to strip rights away from you". What a crock of shit.

Xatrion posted...

"Be silent as we continue to strip rights away from you".

about 50% done. gotta go for the other 50%.

It is a pretty big deal that he refused to actually comment on a sitting SC Justice flying an upside down flag outside his home.

Kimberly posted...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/21/politics/republican-senators-alito-upside-down-flag/index.html

Sorry for the delay, I got sidetracked lol

Of course it'd be one of my fucking Senators lol.

Pinche Cornyn

What noxious gas bellowed forth from the Ancient Gaping Maw this time?

Turducken posted...

What noxious gas bellowed forth from the Ancient Gaping Maw this time?

It seems to me there are nonstop attacks on the Supreme Court, week after week after week, so Im not going to dignify that with a response, McConnell said, responding to a direct question on the issue from CNNs Manu Raju.

We need to leave the Supreme Court alone, protect them from people who went into their neighborhoods and tried to do them harm, look out for the Supreme Courtthats part of the job of the administration, McConnell added.

Basically, "quit talking about and scrutinizing the SC so much now that I've successfully stolen it for the Federalist Society to push our Christo-fascist agenda".