Conservative editorial magazine is facing backlash online for selling flags honoring embattled Supreme Court Justice . According to the magazine, one flag is loosely based on the "Appeal to Heaven" flag commissioned by during the American Revolution. The other is based on the Bennington battle flag, a banner associated with a revolutionary battle that took place in Vermont in 1777.
Both flags prominently feature a photo of Alito who has faced seen flying outside the justice's home in Virginia in January 2021 just days before President 's inauguration. In a recent statement emailed to , Alito placed all the responsibility on his wife, . The justice wrote he "had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag" and that it was "briefly placed by Mrs.
Alito in response to a neighbor's use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs." In addition, flag outside the couple's New Jersey vacation home in 2022, which had become a symbol of the "Stop the Steal" campaign aimed to overturn Biden's 2020 election win against . "National Review is delighted to announce new 'Alito flags' based on honored colonial-era American flags and fashioned to show support for the Supreme Court justice," published in a Friday article in a promotion of the flags.
publisher Rich Lowry called the banners, which cost $197, "beautiful flags" that "hearken back to some of the most stirring symbols of the American Revolution." The magazine's promotion mentions the recent controversies .
