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hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Some additional information on that:

Generally, depending on the country there’s laws for that.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_protocol

Violating these laws can lead to varying degrees of fines and or prosecution, depending on the country and the type of country flag desecration (burning a flag is worse than getting the height of the flag on the pole wrong).

Half mast is the more famous distress signal internationally.

That said, Alito, even if not doing something illegal, is definitely signalling something very ominous. I agree with the experts that such an extreme degree of the appearance of impropriety is definitely gonna run afoul of supreme court ethics rules.

But: no check of power means no executive power and that means a rule might as well be unwritten.

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