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“Out of control”: Legal experts call for recusal, reform over Stop the Steal symbol at Alito home

www.salon.com “Out of control”: Legal experts call for recusal, reform over Stop the Steal symbol at Alito home

Legal experts lament SCOTUS's unenforceable ethics code and call for Alito's recusal following reports a Stop the Steal sign flew outside his home.

Legal experts say its time for the Supreme Court's ethics code to grow some teeth

Legal experts are lamenting the lack of an enforceable judicial ethics code, with some calling for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's recusal, following a New York Times report that a symbol of the “Stop the Steal” movement to reject the 2020 election was flown outside Alito’s home in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Ten leading legal experts told Salon Friday that the conduct — the flying of an upside-down flag, a known symbol of the movement to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, at a justice's home — appears to violate the Supreme Court's own ethics code, adopted last last year, by creating an appearance of bias.

Those experts said it’s far past time for the nine justices who enjoy lifetime appointments to hold themselves to the highest ethical standards. But, they noted, the Supreme Court has shown itself reluctant to do so.

"The situation is out of control," Richard Painter, a former White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush who worked with Justice Alito on his 2006 Senate confirmation, told Salon. "This is after the insurrection, so it's really him weighing in, getting involved publicly in a dispute over the insurrection."

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Every judge appointed by the orange sandwich is illegitimate and needs to be removed
Thomas AND Alito are unquestionably in Donald Von Shitzinpantz's diaper.
Alito's response: "Ha ha, fuck you. I do what I want."

You can call for America's Mullahs to do things, but they won't do them because they don't have to.
In the olden days, if you didn't have a term limit and you were needed to step down from your post you were assassinated.
What a coward. The country can go fuck itself, so just own up to it you pussy. But no no, he's all "my wife did it." So not only can we go fuck ourselves, we're also rock stupid.
There's pretty much zero oversight for a supreme court justice, right? I'm kinda surprised he didn't just lynch a few brown and/or gay people in his front yard because doing so would have equal consequence - none.
lol “creating an appearance of bias.”
the government has a dress code, but no ethics code.

fascinating.
I'm a Law and Order Republican and I'm CONFUSED as to why people are so CONCERNED that the HIGHEST COURT IN THE LAND is Corrupt. WHO CARES?!
So based on how things have gone so far with the fascist in chief, we can expect no consequences at all, or that he will die of old age before any such consequences can be agreed upon. Sound about right?
Yeah, like people in this country would listen to experts. That's basically admitting you don't know everything already.
Disbar the bitch
You know we don't have to wait for the country to fall apart violently. There no shame in just calling it quits and everyone apply for sanctuary at their country of choice all at once.
Trump has so many pawns in place like this guy and this cultists followers. This is terrible but they won't do anything about it.
Conservatism should be a disqualifier for holding positions of authority. Conservatives are immoral and there is no place in a modern civilization for anything they stand for.
Haha, liberals are scared that the façade of a "just" American legal system is going up in flames.

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