The justice’s wife allegedly spat at her neighbors’ car and traded insults, prompting the young couple to call the police
After reports that an upside-down American flag had flown outside the Virginia residence of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito during the period surrounding Jan. 6, 2021, the conservative justice blamed the flag’s placement on his wife, Martha-Ann — claiming her actions were a result of a clash over a neighbor’s anti-Trump yard sign and a verbal insult.
Now, the Alitos’ neighbors — Emily Baden and her then-boyfriend, now husband — are disputing the Alitos’ version of events, according to the The New York Times, which reviewed text messages and a police call to corroborate the claims. According to the Badens, Martha-Ann instigated the weekslong conflict and, at one point, spat at their car as they drove by the Alito’s home.
Per the Times, the couple had placed signs on their yard that read “Trump Is a Fascist” and “You Are Complicit” shortly after the Jan. 6 insurrection. Emily told the publication that the second sign was not directed at the justice and his wife, but at Republicans in general. The signs were soon taken down by Emily’s mother out of safety concerns.
Since, like I said, most of these aren’t coming in through traceable means, I think it’s of pretty limited utility.
There’s also a lot of cases out there, where a lot of people are on the same phone plan who may not even live together, I’m still on my parents phone plan as a married man in my 30s who lives an hour away from them, the way the contracts and such have worked out it’s cheaper for us and there’s no sense of changing it if it’s working fine for all of us. But if I tried to swat someone, it’d be kind of a dick move to hold my parents responsible for it.