To the editor: I think columnist Jackie Calmes has lost objectivity about Supreme Court Justice Sameul A. Alito Jr. (“Important January 6 Supreme Court decisions will be tainted,” Opinion, June 2).
First of all, you should not confuse Alito's wife with that of Justice Clarence Thomas to support your thesis.
Second, Alito's explanation is reasonable. I would probably do exactly what he did regarding a wife who loves his slightly ridiculous hobby with the flag, which is 99% harmless: don't tell her what to do, don't even look at or think about the flag, and stick with it. peace.
Third, most Americans had no idea that the “stop the steal” people had taken an inverted American flag and the “Appeal to Heaven” pine flag as their symbols. I didn't do it, no one I know did, and the people at San Francisco City Hall who flew the pine flag for years didn't either.
Finally, do we have to stop doing something we enjoy simply because nuts or haters have adopted it as a symbol?
Chuck Almdale, Northern Hills
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To the editor: Calmes' column reads like a race between Alito and Thomas for the most biased, if not the most corrupt, justice on the Supreme Court.
Alito's MAGA bias is so obvious and so overt with his appearance on Fox News that you could probably smell it in Siberia. It seems like he and Thomas, the judge with the insurrectionary wife and multimillion-dollar gifts, are in some kind of competition to be the most committed, integrity-deaf judge.
Jim Hoover, Huntington Beach
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To the editor: Calmes believes Thomas and Alito should recuse themselves from the pending Jan. 6 cases based on their respective wives' open displays of support for conservative causes.
Using this reasoning, shouldn't New York Judge Juan Merchán have recused himself from the recently concluded trial against former President Trump because his daughter was a Democratic political consultant?
A little consistency would be refreshing.
Mike Bennett, Rowland Heights
