The watchdog group Accountable.us & Rep Hank Johson (D-GA) issued a letter calling for #ClarenceThomas’s #recusal from the #Oklahoma case because of his ties to Nicole Garnett, the #NotreDame #law prof, who helped shepherd it.
But unlike #AmyConeyBarrett, Thomas did not #recuse.
Garnett was a clerk for Thomas in the late 1990s & has maintained a close relationship w/ him, which Accountable & Johnson say call into question his objectivity in the case.
#Recusal
A retired Texas judge who signed death row inmate Robert Roberson’s execution warrant earlier this year has recused herself from his case.
#Court #CriminalJustice #News #Texas #DeathRowInTexas #DeathRowInmateRobertRoberson #Recusal #RobertRoberson #TexasSupremeCourt
#Alito continues to own individual #stock in >2 dozen companies — a practice that is permitted, but that #transparency advocates caution can lead to conflicts of interest that require #recusal from key cases. The justice reported owning stock in Abbott Laboratories, Boeing & ConocoPhillips, among several other companies.
Chief Justice #JohnRoberts is the only other member of #SCOTUS who owns individual stocks; most other justices invest in mutual funds.
“I just think judges are not so afraid of us. I think there are plenty of judges around this country who could do a task like that in a very fair-minded & serious way” #Kagan said.
Kagan was expanding on her recent suggestion that Chief Justice #JohnRoberts appoint an outside panel of highly experienced judges to review allegations of wrongdoing or #recusal decisions by the justices, some of whom face questions over unreported gifts & conflicts of interest in key cases.
A judge can recuse themselves?!
Clarence Thomas should take notes.
Texas judge who owns Tesla stock recuses himself from X’s advertiser lawsuit
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/13/24219740/texas-judge-reed-oconnor-tesla-stock-x-antitrust-lawsuit
#Texas #Judge #Tesla #Stocks #Recusal #Twitter #Advertisers #Lawsuit #SocialMedia #Tech
#Trump’s #hushmoney judge refuses third #recusal request
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4823780-trump-hush-money-judge-recusal/
Hey, #Alito! #Thomas! Check this out!
Via #CBC
#SupremeCourt Justice #MahmudJamal has decided 2 #recuse himself from hearing challenge 2 #Quebec's #Secularism law after prov gov & 2 advocacy groups argued his partiality in the appeal
The Justice, however, says→no #legal basis 4 his #recusal & he's removing himself so his participation doesn't become distraction during hearing, according 2 letter written by court registrar #ChantalCarbonneau
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/scj-mahmud-jamal-recusal-1.7259008
“Relatedly, it is disgraceful that Justices #ClarenceThomas & #Alito brazenly refused to recuse themselves from this case. As I’ve said before, the appearance of impropriety or partiality require recusal. Until Chief Justice #JohnRoberts uses his existing authority to enact an enforceable code of conduct, I will continue to push to pass the #SupremeCourt #Ethics, #Recusal, & #Transparency Act.”
#Durbin appeared to make a nod to the bubbling concerns of his left flank Wed by attempting to expedite passage of the #SupremeCourt #Ethics, #Recusal, & #Transparency ( #SCERT) Act. The bill would require the court to adopt a binding code of ethics & establish a mechanism to investigate alleged #violations among other changes.
#SCOTUS adopted a new ethics code in Nov, but #Democrats complain it is toothless because it does not have an #enforcement mechanism. [+ justices aren’t adhering to it]
"Compliance with governing law and public respect for the integrity of the Court’s process require this result."
Lavorca goes on to say he speaks as someone who has been been a member of the bar of the Court for over 50 years, appearing frequently before the Court. He concludes,
"Your refusal to recuse yourself taints the process and inevitably will undermine confidence in the Court’s decision on the merits."
"Dear Justice Alito,
The drip-drip-drip of reports about the roles that you and your wife are playing in partisan controversies has risen to a torrent. You must reconsider your decision not to recuse yourself from pending and future cases that come before the Supreme Court involving former President Donald Trump or participants in the events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021."
~ Philip Allen Lavorca
#Alito #SupremeCourt #recusal
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-case-for-justice-samuel-alito-recusal
"I think the Supreme Court is on the ballot this November. And it has to be, because this court is not done unwriting our rights. Basically reversing our rights, limiting our freedoms and putting its thumb on the scale of Justice, in favor of Donald Trump and this right wing agenda."
- Lisa Graves
More of #LisaGraves & the need for the #Recusal of #JusticeAlito
Deadline White House 6-12-2024 w Nicole Wallace
https://youtu.be/1RUq1W5LYSQ?si=6fKpazCVfuum51nl
#Scotus #SupremeCourt #Justice #Alito #Thomas #MarthAnnAlito
#Senate #Republicans block Democrats' #SCOTUS #ethics bill
The legislation would establish a #CodeOfConduct for the justices, as well as #recusal rules & new requirements for disclosing gifts & travel. #Republicans blocked it from advancing.
#law #influence #power #ClarenceThomas #Alito
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-gop-blocks-democrats-supreme-court-ethics-bill-rcna156738
#JusticeAlito's #recusal refusal, despite a sharply obvious appearance of bias — twice — then finally now, after a fudged time-line cover-up, becomes itself then by a preponderance of #evidence proof of his judicial impropriety.
#CorruptedCourt: MAGA-land is thrilled.
How long will we still have a democracy without #SCOTUSreform?
When your law clerk has more integrity than the Justice himself...Former #Alito #LawClerk ‘Aghast’ After Seeing #Jan6 #Flag Outside His Home, Calls For #Recusal. "The problem is that flag is #incendiary and it cannot do anything other than raise a reasonable inference of bias," Susan Sullivan said. https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/-i-was-aghast-alito-must-recuse-from-trump-cases-justice-s-former-clerk-says-212381253985 #SCOTUS #corruption #courts #democracy #constitution #MAGA #Trump #2020election #election2024 #insurrection #bias
Since the public revelation of the #flags engulfed the nation’s highest court in criticism last month & prompted calls for #Alito’s #recusal from certain cases, the justice has said it was his wife who flew the banners, not him, & that she flew one of them after a neighborhood dispute. But his successive explanations — in a statement, an interview w/ FoxNews & letters to Congress — have raised additional questions, & in some cases #conflicted w/known #facts.
Jennifer Rubin: Five ways to respond to Alito’s contemptuous letter: The latest Supreme Court controversy makes clear that it’s past time to rein in this institution.
"No one seriously believed that Alito would step away from the Trump immunity case amid reports that two political flags flown at his houses had also been embraced by the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol rioters supporting Trump. Nevertheless, Alito’s response — in a letter to Durbin and Whitehouse, and in a Fox News interview — laying out his improbable version of events and asserting the constitutional right of his wife, Martha-Ann, to make her own flag-flying decisions, showed such unbridled arrogance as to suggest, as New York University law professor Melissa Murray put it, that he was “trolling” America."
#giftarticle #samuelalito #clarencethomas #troll #supremecourt #recusal
https://wapo.st/4egjwCS
Justice Alito responds to his critics
By Ann Telnaes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/31/ann-telnaes-cartoon-samuel-alito-supreme-court/
#Cartoon #EditorialCartoon #SCOTUS #Alito #Corruption #Recusal #RoeVWade #Abortion #Politics #USA
>> Only an IMPARTIAL and reasonable person who is “aware of ALL relevant circumstances” can VALIDLY call for recusal
>> Not even another #SCOTUS Justice can meet ALL of these — either they might not be IMPARTIAL or they might not be aware of ALL relevant circumstances — failing which, even the call for #recusal is INVALID
#UpsideDown #perversionOfJustice where those calling for recusal of a rouge #Alito must defend themselves BEFORE Alito has to defend himself.
#SupremeCourt #CodeOfEthics is such a sham:
Only an IMPARTIAL and reasonable person who is “aware of ALL relevant circumstances” can VALIDLY call for recusal
A bar so high in the stratosphere that it’s impossible to meet. Not even another #SCOTUS Justice can meet ALL of these requirements — either they might not be IMPARTIAL or they might not be aware of ALL relevant circumstances — failing which, even the call for #recusal is INVALID
#Alito
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-alito-flags-recusal-capitol-riot-f4ef46683365c92e8a3ff9df7894b586
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