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Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito's display of an obscure flag carried by insurrectionists on January 6 outside of his New Jersey vacation home has angered both legal experts and Democrats alike. But now, the conservative jurist's own neighbors are speaking out. The Daily Beast recently reported that several of Alito's neighbors in the Long Beach Township community are both dismayed and alarmed about his display of the "Appeal to Heaven" flag (also known as the Pine Tree flag) between July and September of last year.

The Beast's Justin Rohrlich interviewed neighbors of Alito on all sides of the political spectrum, and found there was almost universal disgust with both his brazen display of a far-right symbol and its reflection on the judiciary as a whole. One local resident the Beast referred to as "Stan" said the display of the Pine Tree flag was "about as dishonest as it gets." ALSO READ: Inside Donald Trump’s billion-dollar Big Oil heist "How far do we go before we normalize a lot of abnormal behavior?" Stan said.



"Confidence in the judiciary has been shaken down to its bedrock...

What [the right wing] is really good at, is being really bad." One unnamed woman who lives close enough to the judge that she can see his house through her windows told the Beast that she felt that it was inappropriate for Alito to be "flying a flag showing his political position" when he has a job that requires him "to be impartial." "He’s entitled to his opinion, but I don’t th.

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