Justice Alito talks polarization, his wife talks revenge in secret recordings

On June 11, 2024By Rgal Nv

WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife were captured in secret recordings in which the justice discussed the country’s left-right divide, while Martha-Ann Alito hinted she would seek revenge in court against media reporting on controversial flags flying at Alito Family Homes.

“Look at me, look at me,” Martha-Ann Alito said. “I am German, I come from Germany. My heritage is German. If you sue me, I’ll give it back to you.

The recordings were made at a June 3 gala for the Supreme Court Historical Society by liberal activist Lauren Windsor and released Monday evening.

“One side or the other is going to win,” Justice Alito said in a recording after Windsor, posing as a Catholic conservative, asked him leading questions about political polarization in the United States. “There may be a way of working, a way of living together peacefully, but it’s difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really cannot be compromised.”

Windsor also recorded Chief Justice John Roberts, who refused to take the bait.

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“Would you like me to be responsible for putting the nation on a more moral path? Roberts asked her at the $500-a-head gala. “It’s for the people we elect. It’s not for lawyers.

When Windsor responded that she believed “we live in a Christian nation and our Supreme Court should lead us in that direction,” Roberts quickly criticized her, saying, “I don’t know if that’s true.”

“I don’t know if we live in a Christian nation,” the chief justice said. “I know a lot of Jewish and Muslim friends who would perhaps say no, and it’s not our role to do that.”

Windsor released the recordings at a difficult time for the high court, after Justice Alito and his wife were criticized for waving flags from their homes in Virginia and New Jersey, which experts say are closely linked to the Stop the Steal election denial movement and the January movement. 6 Capitol riot.

Critics, including Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, have called on Alito to recuse himself from Supreme Court cases involving former President Donald Trump’s broad immunity claims in his indictment for federal election interference, and a separate case over a law used to charge Trump and many of the Jan. 6 defendants.

Alito refused and said in a letter to the committee that his wife raised the flags without his knowledge.

Speaking to Martha-Ann Alito at the June 3 benefit, Windsor expressed sympathy for the criticism she and her husband had faced. Martha-Ann Alito interrupted: “It’s okay! It’s good!”

“It doesn’t matter because if they come back to me, I’ll get them…the media.”

Last month, it was reported that an upside-down American flag was flown outside the Alitos’ Virginia home following Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election. The inverted flag has become a symbol for some Trump supporters who, like former president, continue to claim the election was stolen.