[….]A Justice [pdf] should not allow family, social, political, financial, or other relationships to influence official conduct or judgment. A Justice should neither knowingly lend the prestige of the judicial office to advance the private interests of the Justice or others nor knowingly convey or permit others to convey the impression that they are in a special position to influence the Justice. [….]

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Apparently.

Alito rejects calls to recuse himself from Supreme Court cases because of flag controversies

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….’As soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused,’ he wrote in nearly identical letters to Democrats in the House and the Senate.

He had previously explained to the newspaper that his wife put up the flag as part of a nasty neighborhood dispute.

The flag at his beach house was also hoisted by his wife, Alito wrote, noting that the house is in her name and was bought with money she inherited from her parents.

‘My wife is fond of flying flags. I am not,’ he wrote….

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We’re fond of judicial ethics and The Constitution, he is not.

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