WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is embroiled in a second flag controversy in as many weeks, this time over a banner that in recent years has come to symbolize ...

The “Appeal to Heaven” flag, as it is commonly called, also stands outside of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office in the Capitol building and has been proudly displayed by other Republican ...

The “Appeal to Heaven” flag, was carried by rioters during the pro-Trump attack on the US Capitol in 2021, was flown outside the vacation home of Justice Alito during the summer of 2023.

blasting the Supreme Court justice for flying an upside-down American flag outside his home in Virginia and a Revolutionary War-era “Appeal to Heaven” flag outside his beach home. Democrats ...

One flag is loosely based on the “Appeal to Heaven” flag that was commissioned by George Washington during the American Revolution, and the other on the Bennington battle flag, a banner ...

The following year, at Alito’s vacation home in New Jersey, a flag linked to conservative Christians bearing the motto “Appeal to Heaven" was flown. That flag and inverted U.S. flags were ...

The “Appeal to Heaven” flag, with its pine tree and bold inscription, has its origins in the Revolutionary War, but the phrase itself comes from English philosopher and Enlightenment thinker ...