Religious Traditionalists' Knighthoods

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Trump's Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito got a knighthood from a Catholic group

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito got a knighthood to the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George in 2017 .

Alito has long had vaguely medieval-cosplay tendencies, including a cape made by the pope’s tailor.

Members of the order were also at the investiture, including members of the BourbonTwo Sicilies family.

BourbonTwo Sicilies followers in Southern Italy have formed a “neo-Bourbon” movement, advocating for the family to regain power over its ancestral kingdom.

These modern-day monarchists advocate the return of Naples and Sicily to the Kingdom of Two Sicilies , the monarchy overthrown when Italy was unified in the 1800s .

They have been photographed with Trump and with Syria ’s Bashar al-Assad .

The Constantinian Order and its knights are tied politically to a neo-Bourbon monarchist movement in Southern Italy .

Alito ’s father was from Calabria , and his grandparents were from Basilicata .

Some legal experts think the knighthood may violate the U.S. Constitution's emoluments clause.

Justice Alito did not respond to emails or calls for comment.

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