A federal judge was forced to apologize to Samuel Alito for questioning the Supreme Court justice’s ethics.

In an essay for The New York Times, Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor of Massachusetts had blasted Alito for flying an upside-down American flag outside his home in Virginia and a Revolutionary War-era “Appeal to Heaven” flag outside his beach home.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Chief Judge Albert Diaz found that Ponsor’s essay hurt public confidence in the courts as it took issue with Alito’s ethics, the Washington Examiner reported Wednesday.

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