His political activities also came to the forefront after it emerged that his wife, Martha-Ann Alito, flew an upside-down American ... as something that he should have some kind of control, influence ...

“My wife is fond of flying flags,” Alito wrote. “I am not.” He has not yet responded to the controversy over his Anheuser-Busch shares. In his Wall Street Journal op-ed that came out ahead ...

Alito said his wife had flown the flags and rejected the calls to step aside. The Tuesday call was first reported by ABC News.

Alito has repeatedly angered Democrats over reports that he took expensive trips hosted by wealthy donors and that his wife flew flags signaling her political rooting interests at two of their homes.