The Supreme Court justice’s flagpole has caused quite the stir on the Jersey Shore.
About 45 minutes past the Garden State Parkway’s Judy Blume Service Area, itself precisely 24 miles southeast of the Jon Bon Jovi Service Area,Roughly 15 minutes down Ocean County Road 607, beyond Boulevard Clams and Lenny & John’s Subs—if you pass Mustache Bill’s Diner, you’ve gone too far—sits an unremarkable beach house on a cul-de-sac by Barnegat Bay.
of a “provocative” one seen flying outside the house in July and September of 2023. The pictures showed an Legal experts were highly disturbed by the brazen partisanship suggested by a supposedly impartial jurist seated on the highest court in the land, as were several of Alito’s neighbors who spoke to The Daily Beast on condition of anonymity so as not to create enmity with a person who is among the most powerful in the entire nation.
Another local, who grew up in the area but now lives in the Pacific Northwest, was having lunch at Kubel’s, a casual spot nearby Alito’s house that. Sitting beside a clutch of family members, who still reside in town, “Marsha” said the flag “showed bias.” These days, she went on, “People feel like they’re entitled to do anything they want. And the only opinion that matters is their own.”
One resident, who lives a few doors down from Alito, sees the justice and his wife “once in a while,” but said, with a laugh, that they “don’t socialize with the likes of me.”Alito ended up in the area, according to the neighbor, who gave his name as Eddie, through a high school friend in Trenton who now runs a successful commercial scallop fishing operation in town.
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