'MAGA-loving extremist': Chris Hayes skewers Alito for beer stock trades and Jan. 6 symbol
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was torched by MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Tuesday following reports on his family's display of a pro-Trump extremist symbol at his house just as the Jan. 6 attack was taking place.
Hayes set the scene by playing a clip of Alito speaking to students at the extremely conservative and anti-abortion Franciscan University of Steubenville: "You may find yourself in a job or a community or a social setting where you will be pressured to endorse ideas you don't believe or to abandon core beliefs. It will be up to you to speak out."
"Alito's family had already lived out his advice in their own community,' said Hayes. "As the Supreme Court was considering an election case, by flying the United States Flag upside-down on the front lawn of their house. A symbol adopted by Donald Trump supporters to protest Biden's victory."
And this isn't even the only recent political statement Alito has made, noted Hayes — he also appears to have gotten involved in the far-right Bud Light boycott over the company's partnership with a transgender influencer.
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"While that boycott was raging last August, according to a search of financial records, Justice Alito sold stock in Bud Light's parent company and bought shares of Coors on the same day," said Hayes. "Kid Rock was shooting Bud Light cases and Sam Alito was selling his Anheuser-Busch stock. You could say, maybe just a coincidence of a point for everything else we know about Sam Alito. The guy who just got an honorary degree and a standing ovation at a conservative college for authoring the Dobbs decision that finally ended Roe v. Wade, that got leaked ahead of time like the Hobby Lobby decision, apparently, that he authored to impose religious beliefs on employees."
"The more you examine his comments over the court, and public speeches at conservative schools, at organizations like the Federalist Society, the more he looks and sounds like what I think he is, a far-right MAGA-loving extremist. Nothing confirms that more than the fact that Alito and his wife apparently flew the symbol of an anti-democratic extremist movement over their own home."
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