Showing posts with label recusal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recusal. Show all posts
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Top DOJ official planned to make a claim with Trump’s ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ - POLITICO
A top Justice Department staffer responsible for liaising with Congress planned to make a claim with President Donald Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” and asked to recuse himself from any work related to it — a move that alarmed colleagues at the DOJ, two administration officials familiar with the matter told POLITICO...
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Jamie Raskin and AOC question John Roberts on Samuel Alito flag controversy
"Your decision suggests that you recognized that Justice Alito's partisan ideological activity called into question his impartiality with regard to the Fischer matter," Raskin, who is the committee's ranking member, and Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a letter obtained by The Hill.
"Yet, Justice Alito, like Justice Clarence Thomas, whose own ties to the 'Stop the Steal' movement are well established, was allowed to participate in the Fischer case, in violation of the Court's institutional commitment to the principle that a Justice must 'disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the Justice's impartiality might reasonably be questioned.'"…
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Ocasio-Cortez introduces articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito | CNN Politics
"Justice Thomas and Alito's repeated failure over decades to disclose that they received millions of dollars in gifts from individuals with business before the court is explicitly against the law," Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement. "And their refusal to recuse from the specific matters and cases before the court in which their benefactors and spouses are implicated represents nothing less than a constitutional crisis."…
Saturday, June 8, 2024
Alito neighbor gives detailed account of 'nasty' dispute that became national news : NPR
The saga began as a dispute over anti-Trump lawn signs and culminated in a profanity-filled confrontation on the street, which Justice Samuel Alito witnessed…
Friday, May 31, 2024
CROOKED Justice MAKES DECISION on Recusal
Embroiled Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito just TOLD OFF the Senate Democratic leadership, refused to appear to meet with them, blamed his wife for an abusive marriage effectively, and refused to step down from Trump cases.
Thursday, May 30, 2024
Ugly encounters with Alito's wife came after upside-down flag was flown: Neighbors
According to the Badens, Martha-Ann Alito initiated the conflict.
"Aside from putting up a sign, we did not begin or instigate any of these confrontations," Baden told the Times...
Opinion | How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Cases - The New York Times
The U.S. Department of Justice — including the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, an appointed U.S. special counsel and the solicitor general, all of whom were involved in different ways in the criminal prosecutions underlying these cases and are opposing Mr. Trump's constitutional and statutory claims — can petition the other seven justices to require Justices Alito and Thomas to recuse themselves not as a matter of grace but as a matter of law.
The Justice Department and Attorney General Merrick Garland can invoke two powerful textual authorities for this motion: the Constitution of the United States, specifically the due process clause, and the federal statute mandating judicial disqualification for questionable impartiality, 28 U.S.C. Section 455. The Constitution has come into play in several recent Supreme Court decisions striking down rulings by stubborn judges in lower courts whose political impartiality has been reasonably questioned but who threw caution to the wind to hear a case anyway. This statute requires potentially biased judges throughout the federal system to recuse themselves at the start of the process to avoid judicial unfairness and embarrassing controversies and reversals...
Friday, May 24, 2024
Impeach Justice Samuel Alito
If Alito does not recuse himself from cases involving Trump, Congress must impeach him. The public’s trust in the Supreme Court is at stake.
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Another provocative flag flown at Samuel Alito residence, report says | US politics | The Guardian
Last summer, the "Appeal to Heaven" flag, which originates from the Revolutionary war and has in recent years become a symbol of far-right Christian extremism, was flown outside Alito's summer home in Long Beach Island, New Jersey, the New York Times reported on Wednesday...
Friday, May 17, 2024
Supreme Court Justice Alito’s House Displayed a ‘Stop the Steal’ Flag After Jan. 6 - The New York Times
This spring, the justices are already laboring under suspicion by many Americans that whatever decisions they make about the Jan. 6 cases will be partisan. Justice Clarence Thomas has declined to recuse himself despite the direct involvement of his wife, Virginia Thomas, in efforts to overturn the election.
Now, with decisions in the Jan. 6 cases expected in just a few weeks, a similar debate may unfurl about Justice Alito, the ethics experts said. "It really is a question of appearances and the potential impact on public confidence in the court," Mr. Fogel said. "I think it would be better for the court if he weren't involved in cases arising from the 2020 election. But I'm pretty certain that he will see that differently."…
Monday, April 22, 2024
Weekly Roundup: Clarence Thomas, Husband of J6 Insurrectionist, J6 Oversees Insurrection Cases (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
Brad and Dan open with a discussion of the J6 cases at SCOTUS – and the fact that Clarence Thomas has not recused himself, despite his wife being involved in J6.
The hosts then move to the details of the Stormy Daniels Hush Money case – going through the actual crimes being charged and explaining why they are indeed related to the election.
In the final segment Dan analyzes an article in the Atlantic on what Americans lost when they stopped participating in organized religion. (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/america-religion-decline-non-affiliated/677951/)
The hosts then move to the details of the Stormy Daniels Hush Money case – going through the actual crimes being charged and explaining why they are indeed related to the election.
In the final segment Dan analyzes an article in the Atlantic on what Americans lost when they stopped participating in organized religion. (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/america-religion-decline-non-affiliated/677951/)
Interview:
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Chief justice urged to make Alito and Thomas step aside in megadonor cases | US supreme court | The Guardian
More than 40 US watchdog groups have called on the chief justice of the US supreme court, John Roberts, to force rightwing justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito to recuse themselves from cases in which their links to billionaire donors have produced conflicts of interest...
Saturday, September 30, 2023
Sunday, September 10, 2023
Alito rejects call to recuse in tax case - POLITICO
"Why do these justices continue to take a wrecking ball to the reputation of the highest court in the land?" Durbin added...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Amy Coney Barrett urged to step away from gay rights case because of faith affiliation
The US supreme court justice's history with the People of Praise raises questions about her impartiality in upcoming case…
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
'Absurd': Experts say Justice Clarence Thomas 'giving the finger to the court' - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism
Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe shared similar concerns and argued that Thomas violated a federal law that requires "any 'justice' to recuse when his or her 'impartiality might reasonably be questioned' or his or her 'spouse is known by the justice to have an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome.'"
Tribe added that "Thomas is giving the finger to the Court on which he sits, the Chief Justice and Associate Justices with whom he serves, the Constitution he interprets and the Nation that pays his salary."…
Monday, June 13, 2022
Email to Giuliani reveals plan to keep Trump in office on Jan. 6, court records show - CBS News
According to the email – revealed via a recent court filing by the House Jan. 6 Committee in its legal fight against Trump attorney John Eastman – Chesebro wanted Pence to recuse himself from his constitutional position as president of the Senate and the presiding officer over the joint session and claim a "conflict of interest" by way of being a candidate on the ballots in question...
...Once recused, the email continued, Grassley or another senior Republican majority member would become the presiding officer of the joint session and begin the election certification…
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Amy Klobuchar and Cory Booker call on Clarence Thomas to recuse himself after wife Ginni Thomas’s texts emerge - The Washington Post
"All I hear is silence from the Supreme Court right now, and that better change in the coming week," Klobuchar said. "So not only should he recuse himself, but this Supreme Court badly needs ethics rules."…
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