His defiance over ethics concerns only drives home their importance, and how much more robust standards need to be applied to the high court.
published opinions explaining their non-recusals. Each justice premised his decision on the federal recusal statute, quoting the provision that a justice “shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”
Nor did Scalia believe that recusal was just a matter of personal choice. “Recusal is the course I must take—and will take—when, on the basis of established principles and practices, I have said or done something which requires that course,” he said.It took Justice Samuel Alito less than five months to renege on his written commitment to his colleagues and the public.
to Chief Justice John Roberts on Aug. 3, asking him “to take appropriate steps to ensure that Justice Alito will recuse himself in…Alito could easily have denied Durbin’s request under the terms of the federal statute, but he had a more performative point to make.
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