Wife of Justice Alito called upside-down flag ‘signal of distress’

Martha-Ann Bomgardner, the wife of US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, reportedly used an upside-down American flag as her Facebook profile picture, which she described as a “signal of distress.”

The upside-down flag is seen as a universally recognized sign of distress and it is used to indicate extreme danger to life or property. In American history, it has also been used as a form of protest. Martha-Ann Alito’s use of this symbol seems to call attention to a situation