In recently released secret recordings taken at the Supreme Court Historical Society’s annual dinner on June 3, Justice Samuel Alito’s wife can be heard vowing to take revenge over their recent flag controversy.
“You come after me, I’m gonna give it back to you,” Martha-Ann Alito said in the recordings. “There will be a way. It doesn’t have to be now, but there will be a way they know. Don’t worry about it.”
Last month, Justice Alito was criticized after it was reported that he had flown an upside-down flag outside one of his homes amidst the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, along with another flag related to the “Stop the Steal” movement.
Alito has since come out and explained that his wife had flown the flags and that he wouldn’t be recusing himself from any former President Donald Trump-related cases as she was within her legal right to do so.
The recordings come from progressive filmmaker Lauren Windsor, who was an attendee of the event under her real name and posed as a conservative. The clips have since been published by several news sources, including MSNBC and Rolling Stone, as well as her site The Undercurrent.
In the recording, Martha-Ann Alito could also be heard committing to fly a “Sacred Heart of Jesus” flag at her homes this month to protest the display of nearby Pride flags. The flag she intends to fly is often used by Christian right-wingers who protest Pride.
Martha-Ann Alito also said that her husband asked her not to put up flags at their properties.
“I won’t do that because I’m deferring to you,” she said she told her husband. “But when you are free of this nonsense, I’m putting it up, and I’m gonna send them a message every day, maybe every week, I’ll be changing the flags.”