U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is under attack because his wife has had the nerve — the nerve!!!! — to fly the American flag in front of their home in the accepted sign of distress: upside down. Not to mention that the Alito beach getaway house flies the “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a Revolutionary War banner that some flew at the Capitol on Jan. 6. All of which which has consequently deeply angered a left-leaning Alito neighbor, not to mention drawn the wrath of the liberal media. Meanwhile, at the Trump show trial in New York, the Biden-contributing, Trump-hating New York Judge Juan Merchan is going about the business of running the Trump show trial in a fashion that has drawn repeated calls of outright judicial corruption. So. What ties the two together? That would be, of course, former President Donald J. Trump. In Washington, Justice Alito’s flag-flying wife is seen by the Alito’s left-leaning neighbor as nothing less than an extension of her conservative justice husband’s potential Trump support in future Trump-related cases that may work their way to the Supreme Court. Therefore the flag must go. And in New York, Judge Merchan is relentlessly siding with the lefty New York prosecutor in his zeal to convict Trump of something — anything! Taken collectively, the responses to the actions of both symbolize the utter contempt the elites of the American Left have for average, Trump-supporting Americans. The question now is what to do about it. In terms of the Supreme Court, Newsmax headlines this: Chief Justice Roberts Rejects Senate Dems’ Request to Discuss Alito, Ethics The story reports:  Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday declined an invitation to meet with Democrat senators to talk about Supreme Court ethics and the controversy over flags that flew outside homes owned by Justice Samuel Alito. …Justices decide for themselves when to step aside from cases, Roberts noted. Alito said he concluded nothing about the flags, both of which he said were flown by his wife outside their homes in Virginia and New Jersey, required his recusal. Politely put, the chief justice was telling the Democrat senators that a Supreme Court Justice has the right to fly the flag of his or her choice in front of their own decidedly private residence. And notably, no one is asking Democrat senators what flags they may fly in front of their own home. Three cheers for Chief Justice Roberts. Meanwhile, Judge Merchan sails along running his anti-Trump show trial, the guilty verdicts of which will instantly be appealed. Taken together, what is vividly on display here in both situations is an American Left that is decidedly set on silencing any dissent from their far-left agenda.  Whether that means a Supreme Court justice’s wife flying flags in front of their two homes or a left-wing Trump-hating New York judge fixing the conduct of his Trump trial. At a minimum? Three cheers as well for Justice and Mrs. Alito. Not to mention three cheers for former President Trump, who has been submitted to an outrageous and decidedly dangerous, un-American, weaponization of the law. READ MORE: Twelve Corrupt Jurors A Disgusting, Filthy Corruption of American Justice This Is Not America. It’s Manhattan. The post The Curious Trump Tie: Alito’s Flag and Merchan’s Trial appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.