Sahil Kapur is a senior national political reporter for NBC News.
WASHINGTON — Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin, D-Ill., reiterated to reporters Monday that he wants Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself after a New York Times report that an upside-down American flag hung outside the Supreme Court justice’s home in mid-January of 2021. But Durbin said he doesn’t plan to hold an inquiry into the matter. “No, we haven’t got anything planned. I think he’s explained his situation. The American public understand what he did,” he said.
Neighbors, the Times reported, were alarmed by the display on the Alitos’ property in mid-January, 2021, between the Jan. 6 attack and President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Justice Alito didn’t return a request for comment by NBC News. Durbin responded, “I’ve been in this business a few years and I want to tell you: pointing to your wife is never a good defense.” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., the second-ranking Judiciary Democrat, said “we should investigate” the Alito incident.
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