Alito and the court declined to respond to requests for comment on how the “Appeal to Heaven” flag came to be flying and what it was intended to express. Alito has said the upside down ...

The Times previously reported that an upside down American flag — a sign of distress — had flown outside Alito's Alexandria, Virginia, home less than two weeks after the violent Jan. 6, 2021 ...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. has offered multiple accounts of how politically charged flags came to fly outside his homes in Virginia and New Jersey — the type of display that is ...

The symbol of an upside-down flag dates back to the Revolutionary War and is described in John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government as an “Appeal to Heaven” from disgruntled colonists. Locke believed ...