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.
#Recuse
This looks superb:
Clothes/textiles recycling, and:
"We take e-waste from any brand in any condition - even smashed. We sanitize all data and break down items into components for either reuse or materials recycling.”
For EOL #Apple products it’s probably best to send straight to Apple (https://www.apple.com/shop/trade-in#recycle), but I'm going to try this for a load of cables etc. that might otherwise be “wasted”.
It would require the #IRS to initiate an #audit of the justices’ tax returns each year, release the results & make the tax filings public. Nominees to the court would have to disclose 3 yrs of tax returns.
Another measure would allow a two-thirds vote of the court to force a fellow justice to #recuse from a case.
#law #SCOTUS #ethics #JudicialEthics #Judiciary #JudicialReform #CourtReform #SCOTUSreform #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #USpol
Why New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron did NOT recuse himself from Trump's conviction and sentencing, dismissing Trump's recent motion.
My favorite 3 sentences (1 of 2) - "As objectionable as your conduct was prior to when the flying of those flags came to light publicly, calls for your recusal from January 6th-related cases once the flags became publicly known gave you an opportunity to recommit to the principles of judicial ethics & the credibility of the Supreme Court. You did not."
#SCOTUS #Alito #recuse #Jan6 #cases #CREW #asks #resignation #resign #impeach #SamuelAlito & #ClearanceThomas #Thomas #Ginny #SupremeCourt
HERE IT IS, w FOOTNOTES! (link is to their PDF) Citizens for Ethics (CREW; Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington), who has argued before SCOTUS,
today asks for Supreme Court Justice *Samuel Alito's resignation*, huzzah.
#compromised #SCOTUS #kangaroo #SupremeCourt #purchased #packed #stacked #millionaire #folly #Alito #Thomas #impeach #remove #recuse #Jan6 #cases #court #traitor #Ginny #ClearanceThomas #Clarence #Harlan #Crow #HarlanCrow #owns a #justice https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CREW-Alito-Resignation-Letter.pdf
In the wake of the sustained crisis of institutional legitimacy facing #SCOTUS, #SamuelAlito must resign, acc/to a letter sent today by @CREW to Alito. The letter outlines Alito’s failures to avoid the appearance of #bias, & his failure to #recuse from cases where his impartiality would reasonably be questioned, in violation of the #law & the #SupremeCourt Code of Conduct.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action/letters/justice-alito-must-resign/
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
"All of this comes amid the worst #scandals in the court’s #history, which raise serious doubt about the justices’ independence & #integrity (e.g. Samuel #Alito 's #insurrectionist flag flying, #ClarenceThomas' refusal to #recuse himself despite his wife’s participation in the #coup attempt, Thomas’s multiple #financial disclosure violations & receipts of millions of dollars in #gifts). These, coupled with obvious gamesmanship to benefit “their side,” will permanently besmirch this court."
#Durbin Reveals #Omissions of #Gifted Private #Travel to Justice #ClarenceThomas from #HarlanCrow https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/releases/durbin-reveals-omissions-of-gifted-private-travel-to-justice-clarence-thomas-from-harlan-crow #SCOTUS #MAGA #courts #ethicsreform #Senate #judiciary #legalresearch #recuse #corruption
…The letters include a much more specific explanation of why #MarthaAnnAlito flew the “#AppealToHeaven” flag at the couple’s vacation home….
#Alito said he “assumed” his wife was flying it for #religious & patriotic reasons. He definitively said neither he or his wife knew the flag was associated w/the “Stop the Steal” & it was not flown in solidarity w/that movement.
#law #SCOTUS #ChristianNationalism #ethics #judiciary #recuse #QuestionableJudgment
The most pivotal question about the #UpsideDown American #flag has yet to be fully answered: #MarthaAnnAlito’s motivation for flying it.
…The Alitos have not explicitly addressed whether the upside-down flag had a connection to #Jan6 or “Stop the Steal,” & Justice #Alito’s comments about his wife’s motivation for flying it have shifted.
#law #SCOTUS #ethics #judiciary #recuse #QuestionableJudgment
…#Alito told Fox News …the neighborhood dispute began when his wife went to speak w/their neighbor Emily Baden in Jan 2021. #MarthaAnnAlito was upset the woman was displaying an anti #Trump sign, w/an expletive, “within 50 feet of where children await the school bus,” as Bream put it on…[social media].
But Fairfax County schools were shuttered at the time because of the coronavirus pandemic & had been since March 2020.
#law #SCOTUS #ethics #judiciary #recuse #QuestionableJudgment
“Wemple points his finger at the real reason for keeping the flag story dark: deference to power:
The Alitos received deference to which they were not entitled. Though Justice Alito’s claim that the upside-down flag was flown “in response” to yard signs might be genuine, it’s a stretch. For one, [neighbor Emily] Baden told me in an interview that she never even saw this alleged “response.” Plus — inverting the flag commonly expresses concerns more global than some handmade, glitter-sprayed, cursive sign down the street. “My involvement begins and ends with putting a sign in my yard that says, ‘F--- Trump’ that they used as a scapegoat” for their display. “I just want to say that’s absolutely ridiculous and everybody knows it,” said Baden.
No one from The Post contacted Baden, she says, until after the Times’s May 16 story was published. All signs point to a failure of The Post to publish something about this fracas, whatever its focus or takeaway.”
Shame on @washingtonpost
#SCOTUS #Justice #justicealito #Law #Accountability #Corruption #Alito #ImpeachAlito #ImpeachThomas #Impeach #Recuse #WeThePeople #PublicOpinion #Congress #USA #America #Ethics
A treat of a read from @chrisgeidner #LawDork #Alito #Recuse #Resign #MarthAnnAlito #SCOTUS
"Here’s a list of demeaning quotes from Alito’s letter responding to Sens. Dick Durbin and Sheldon Whitehouse’s letter from last week calling on his recusal:
“As I have stated publicly, I had nothing whatsoever to do with the flying of that flag. I was not even aware of the upside-down flag until it was called to my attention.” Alito, who served in the military, wants you to believe that he did not notice an upside-down flag flying in front of his home.
“As soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused.” Come off it.
“My wife and I own our Virginia home jointly. She therefore has the legal right to use the property as she sees fit, and there were no additional steps that I could have taken to have the flag taken down more promptly.” Is he describing a landlord-tenant relationship, or his family? Beyond that, this was a Supreme Court justice in January 2021, as the Twenty-Fifth Amendment was being discussed, impeachment was being pursued, and fences were being erected, but this man decided not to push whether there was an upside-down flag flying in front of his home? This honestly is as distressing an admission to me as anything Alito has said throughout this scandal. (Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern dig down on an aspect of this, Alito’s one-woman feminism.)"
“#DOJ — including US attorney for #DC, an appointed US special counsel and the solicitor general, all of whom were involved in different ways in the criminal prosecutions underlying these cases and are opposing #Trump’s claims — can petition the other 7 justices to require #Alito & #Thomas to #recuse themselves not as a matter of grace but as a matter of law.”
This can ONLY work if #Garland has a pulse and is not glacially slow to come to the calling of his nation.
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