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Latest Clarence Thomas shadiness highlights GOP recusal hypocrisy
The SCOTUS needs a binding ethics policy
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The latest report on Clarence Thomas' questionable ethics does many things. For one, it reminds us that we have a series of such reports about a Supreme Court justice, who continues to sit on the court undisturbed. That’s something we’re living through.
More specifically, another one of the things ProPublica’s latest Thomas report highlights is the GOP’s hypocrisy when it comes to judicial recusal.,,,,,
Indeed, we can expect Thomas to take a similar path as fellow conservative Justice (and fellow ProPublica ethics reporting subject) Samuel Alito, who recently and unconvincingly declined to recuse from a case that’ll also be heard this coming term. The case was brought by a lawyer who conducted fawning interviews of Alito for The Wall Street Journal opinion section. That case, too, involving taxes, is a big one for the conservative legal movement.
To be sure, it would be somewhat surprising, yet welcome, if, like Alito, Thomas were to even try and explain his likely decision to not recuse here.
I should also point out that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself from this Chevron case, called Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, presumably due to her participation in the case while she was on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where she sat prior to her high court appointment by Joe Biden.
More specifically, another one of the things ProPublica’s latest Thomas report highlights is the GOP’s hypocrisy when it comes to judicial recusal.,,,,,
Indeed, we can expect Thomas to take a similar path as fellow conservative Justice (and fellow ProPublica ethics reporting subject) Samuel Alito, who recently and unconvincingly declined to recuse from a case that’ll also be heard this coming term. The case was brought by a lawyer who conducted fawning interviews of Alito for The Wall Street Journal opinion section. That case, too, involving taxes, is a big one for the conservative legal movement.
To be sure, it would be somewhat surprising, yet welcome, if, like Alito, Thomas were to even try and explain his likely decision to not recuse here.
I should also point out that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself from this Chevron case, called Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, presumably due to her participation in the case while she was on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where she sat prior to her high court appointment by Joe Biden.
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