urged Democrats to use their power in order to investigate Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito over his flying of a Revolutionary War flag., Ocasio-Cortez claimed that the flying of the flag was Alito’s way of identifying with Jan. 6 rioters.
“I also believe that when Democrats have power, we have to use it,” the New York Democrat continued. “We cannot be in perpetual campaign mode. We need to be in governance mode. We need to be in accountability mode, with every lever that we have because we cannot take a Senate majority for granted, a House majority for granted, or a White House for granted.”
The Appeal to Heaven flag was designed by George Washington’s secretary, Colonel Joseph Reed in 1775. The text on the flag, displayed above a New England pine tree, refers to a passage from the English philosopher John Locke in his Second Treatise on Government. In the passage, Locke argued that citizens had a divinely ordained right to revolt against any governing body or figure seen as unjust.
The flag was flown by a Massachusetts naval squadron during the Revolutionary War and adopted as the state’s naval flag. A version of the flag, without the text since 1971, remains as Massachusetts’s naval ensign.
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