Another controversial flag link to Jan. 6 was displayed outside Alito’s home.

Another controversial flag link to Jan. 6 was displayed outside Alito's home

A second flag that was carried by supporters of Donald Trump as they stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 was displayed outside the vacation home of conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, The New York Times reported.

An “Appeal to Heaven” flag, which according to the Times is a symbol for the religious arm of the “Stop the Steal” campaign, was seen flying outside Alito’s New Jersey beach home in July and September 2023.

The “Appeal to Heaven” flag—a white flag with a green pine tree in the center—dates back to the Revolutionary War but in modern day has come to be associated with Christian nationalism.

It is unclear whether the flag was flown at Alito’s home for consecutive months.

The Times noted however that when the flag was on display, a Jan. 6 case that challenges an obstruction law used to prosecute hundreds of rioters, including members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, arrived before the Supreme Court.

The report comes days after the newspaper broke the story about an inverted flag which is also a symbol of the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement was on display at Alito’s home.

The Supreme Court’s ethics code bans justices from making political statements in order to preserve their impartiality on matters that comes before the court.

Alito declined to comment on how the “Appeal to Heaven” flag came to be flying at his home. He previously said the inverted flag was flown by his wife amid a dispute with neighbors and he “had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag.”

After the news of the inverted flag broke, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) called on Alito to recuse himself from Jan. 6 related cases before the court.

“Flying an upside-down American flag — a symbol of the so-called ‘Stop the Steal’ movement — clearly creates the appearance of bias,” Durbin said. “Justice Alito should recuse himself immediately from cases related to the 2020 election and the January 6th insurrection, including the question of the former President’s immunity in U.S. v. Donald Trump, which the Supreme Court is currently considering.”