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The Alitos are the latest couple to face the question: When you are married to someone in public life — a Supreme Court justice, a member of Congress, a Post Opinions columnist — what compromises do you need to make? Should you be held to the same ethical standards as your spouse? Charles Lane, Ruth Marcus and James Hohmann discuss the politics of marriage, whether the Supreme Court is more partisan now than in the past and why they don’t think Justice Alito needs to recuse himself in the Jan. 6 case.
Read more from the Washington Post:
“The strange case of Alito v. Alito”
“Sam Alito's flag flew upside down. Are his ethics?”
“Read Justice Alito’s letter denying requests to recuse from Jan. 6 cases”
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