US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has been staunchly criticized this month afterThe New York Times revealed that the justice flew two flags related to Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” 2020 campaign outside of his homes. Democratic lawmakers have called for Alito to recuse himself from cases related to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol as a result, and on Thursday he publicly refused to do so. Writing to US Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI, Alito wrote, “You claim that two incidents involving the flying of flags created an appearance of impropriety that requires …