After coming under scrutiny for flying an American flag upside-down in his front yard in January 2021, days before the inauguration of Joe Biden, the supreme court justice Samuel Alito said it was his wife who flew the flag – a signal of political discontent that was waved by some rioters during the January 6 insurrection – in response to a neighborhood spat.
Now, the neighbor at the center of the argument, which was reportedly about anti-Trump yard signs, says Alito’s account of the events is wrong and that the flag was already flying upside-down well before the confrontation.
