Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro,' a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
No one expected Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from Jan. 6-related cases, despite the appearance of impropriety from flags flying at his homes that Jan. 6 rioters also carried. But his explanation Wednesday for refusing to step aside further exposes his inability or unwillingness to understand the problem with him sitting on these cases, leaving important questions unanswered.
” Of the upside-down flag that flew outside his house post-Jan. 6, Alito wrote that OK, so he’s leaning into the my-wife-did-it thing.
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