All three pillars of the Alito flag stories have fallen apart. That leaves the justice’s critics to raise the rhetorical temperature in lieu of fact and reason.
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Justice Samuel Alito testifies about the court’s budget during a hearing of the House Appropriations Committee’s Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee in Washington, D.C., March 7, 2019.
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For all the resources the New York Times has devoted to throwing four reporters into investigating what flags have flown at the home and beach house of Justice Samuel Alito, the desperate sleight of hand in the stories has become all the more apparent. As presented by the Times, the stories have three basic themes:
The third of these themes collapsed upon immediate scrutiny: As I noted in response to the first of the three Times “news” stories on this issue:
About the Author
Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Online and a fellow at National Review Institute.
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For all the resources the New York Times has devoted to throwing four reporters into investigating what flags have flown at the home and beach house of Justice Samuel Alito, the desperate sleight of hand in the stories has become all the more apparent. As presented by the Times, the stories have three basic themes:
The third of these themes collapsed upon immediate scrutiny: As I noted in response to the first of the three Times “news” stories on this issue:
About the Author
Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Online and a fellow at National Review Institute.
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