On last week’s upside down flag flying stupidity I have to say I’ve been a bit slow on the uptake and only just learnt the following..
Formerly Martha-Ann Bomgardner, she was born in Kentucky and graduated from the University of Kentucky before becoming a law librarian at the library where she met Alito, who was a law clerk at the time, according to the online U.S. Sun newspaper.
https://www.newsweek.com/who-samuel-alitos-wife-martha-ann-spotlight-after-flag-scandal-1901988
And
Bomgardner was born in Kentucky and graduated from the University of Kentucky.
She was once a law librarian and met her future husband, Samuel, in the library as he would visit regularly as a law clerk.
They dated for a year before he got an offer from the US solicitor general and moved to Washington in August 1981.
Martha-Ann also worked at the US Attorney’s Office.
She revealed in an interview with The Washington Post that her husband likes Beethoven and Springsteen, but she forces him to listen to Scarlatti and Bach.
She added that Alito is a great marksman.
While her net worth is unknown, Forbes reported her husband’s net worth to be in the $10 million range, making him one of the wealthiest members of the Supreme Court.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18443025/martha-ann-bomgardner-who-wife-samuel-alito/
Also Above the law has the latest set of excuses
The Sam Alito Flag Excuses Keep Getting Dumber
Sam Alito’s flag excuse was bad… his defenders’ excuses are even worse.
The New York Times reported that, in the aftermath of the January 6 riot, Justice Sam Alito’s house flew its United States flag upside-down. While everyone wondered why a Supreme Court justice decided to post the internet’s favorite “Down to Insurrect” sign outside his house in 2021, Alito just blamed his wife.
Because obviously the job of hoisting the flag at the Alito home belongs to Mrs. Alito, a law librarian by training, and not Sam, A FORMER CAPTAIN IN THE U.S. ARMY. Specifically, a Captain in the Signal Corps… the flag symbol people.
Anyway, it seems as though Captain Wrongway Flagfuzz over here has managed to nick himself with Occam’s Razor yet again. Just like when he denies involvement in the Dobbs leak despite being tied to past leaks by a former right-wing activist or claims he didn’t really know the billionaire who gave him free private plane rides even though ABOVE THE LAW WROTE A FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THEM PALLING AROUND IN 2009.
But at least Alito’s decided to quit while he’s behind and just let his wife sit under the bus he backed over her. His defenders aren’t quite as satisfied and have decided that Alito’s official explanations are so bad that they’re going to go ahead and invent new ones:
Read more at
https://abovethelaw.com/2024/05/the-sam-alito-flag-excuses-keep-getting-dumber/
