Media deserve flag on the play for Alito attacks

Published May 31, 2024 9:41am ET



Supreme Court justices appointed by Republicans can do nothing right. Former President Donald Trump‘s nominations of Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the high court set off a frenzy amid the legacy media.

Democrats subjected Kavanaugh to unsubstantiated eleventh-hour rape claims and character assassinations during his hearing. The media lambasted Barrett, whose nomination came less than two months before the 2020 election, for her faith and family. The recent attacks on Justice Samuel Alito for flags flown at his private residences are a whole new brand of hysteria. 

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