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 ...

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 ...

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 ...