Buttigieg Rips Anti-Pride Flag Comments By Alito’s Wife: My ‘Marriage Only Exists By the Grace of a Single Vote’ By SCOTUS

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg appeared on CNN on Wednesday to discuss the reopening of the Baltimore harbor where the Key bridge collapsed after being struck by a cargo ship, but he was also asked about recent comments made by Martha-Ann Alito .

CNN anchor John Berman took the opportunity to ask Buttigieg about other subjects including Hunter Biden’s guilty verdict (and President Joe Biden’s reaction to it) and the comments by the wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito . Mrs. Alito was caught on tape by a liberal activist saying that she hoped to fly a “Sacred Heart of Jesus flag because I have to look across the lagoon at the pride flag for the next month” so she could “send them a message every day.” Buttigieg responded with a reminder of how “powerful” the position of the Supreme Court truly is:

Look, I’m often reminded that the most important thing in my life, which is my marriage and my family and the two beautiful children that, my husband Chasten and I are raising, that that marriage only exists by the grace of a single vote on the United States Supreme Court that expanded our rights and freedoms back in 2015 and made it possible for somebody like me to get married. And, you know, Supreme Court justices have an unbelievable amount of power. And by the nature and the structure of the Supreme Court, there’s no supervision over that power. They are entrusted with it literally for as long as they live. And part of that trust is we expect them to enter into those enormously consequential decisions that shape our everyday lives with a sense of fairness.

And when it came to Mrs. Alito’s flags :

I also hope that most Americans can understand the difference between a flag that symbolizes love and acceptance and signals to people who have sometimes feared for their safety that they’re going to be okay and insurrectionist symbology. I’ll just leave it at that.

Watch the video above via CNN.