‘Disgusting!’ Joe Scarborough Pounds Table Over Stunning Report On Judge Samuel Alito’s ‘Stop the Steal’ Sign After Jan 6

On Friday, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough was nearly apoplectic over a report that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito flew an upside-down flag — a symbol widely used to support the “Stop the Steal” movement— outside his home in the days following January 6.

The stunning report published Thursday revealed the deeply partisan views of Alito, whose position as an associate justice in the highest court in the land is generally thought to be one of impartiality. Scarborough was incensed by the outward support of the movement that claimed, wrongly, that former President Donald Trump had the 2020 election stolen from him:

I will tell you, growing up, one of my friend’s fathers was a federal judge. I had no idea until I got older whether he was Republican or Democrat. And that was the case in northwest Florida, a very conservative place. The federal judges kept themselves beyond reproach. They never talked politics, ever, in the privacy of their homes. If you asked them opinion, they would just say, “Not my job.” Right? “I’m a judge.” They actually took their oath seriously.

And for a Supreme Court justice and I will say, my opinion only, but the guy most likely to have had something to do with the leaking of the Dobbs decision, leaking it to the Wall Street Journal or somebody connected to him, leaking it to the Wall Street Journal because he wanted to keep Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett frozen in place. I think history will show that. But that aside, for a guy who is a Supreme Court justice that let that happen at his own home in one of the most fraught times in American history since the Civil War is just… It’s just sad. And it shows how little respect he has for the institution. It shows how little respect he has for the law. It really… It’s disgusting. It’s just disgusting.

Watch the video above via MSNBC.