Alito doubts US right and left can co-exist and wife criticizes Pride flag in secret recording

US supreme court justice and wife, Martha-Ann Alito, made unguarded comments to film-maker posing as conservative

Samuel Alito, the US supreme justice at the center of a flag controversy that has called his impartiality into question, has said one side of the US's bitter left v right ideological conflicts has to prevail, in secretly recorded remarks that are likely to exacerbate concerns about judicial neutrality.

In unguarded comments made to a film-maker posing as a conservative, Alito - one of the court's most conservative justices - also agreed with the assertion that the US had to be returned to a place of godliness".