#recuse — Public Fediverse posts
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#SCOTUS announced Tuesday that it will now employ #software to help the justices identify when they should probably #recuse themselves from cases. We say “probably,” because there’s still no actually enforceable #ethics code binding #SupremeCourt justices & the #ChiefJustice has made very clear that he will ignore any attempt to impose one. Instead, the Supreme Court drafted a 14-page pinky swear that they will follow some of the same rules that bind lower court judges.
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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. -
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”.
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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
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Why New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron did NOT recuse himself from Trump's conviction and sentencing, dismissing Trump's recent motion.
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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/
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"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."
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#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
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…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
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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
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…#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
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#SusanSullivan is a professor of #Law at Temple University. She is also a former #SCOTUS clerk for #SamuelAlito. She was ‘aghast’ seeing #insurrection flags being flown at the #Alito home, and says he must #recuse himself from *any* case involving #DonaldTrump. ✅ 👉 https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/justice-alito-upside-down-flag-trump-immunity-recusal-20240602.html
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“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
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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.)"
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Some great #SCOTUS editorial cartoons by Mike Luckovich
#Alito #SCOTUSstench #law #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #JudicialEthics #Recuse #TermLimits #ChristianNationalism #Jan6 #insurrection
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#Alito rejected demands that he #recuse himself from #SupremeCourt cases tied to #Jan6 attack. Calls for Justice Alito's recusal from 2 cases have followed reports that flags appearing to support the #StoptheSteal movement had flown outside his 2 homes. #democracy #SCOTUS #corruption #GOP #MAGA #votingrights #constitution and Rep. Raskin on Congress’s #recusal #statute provides objective framework of analysis and remedy for cases of clear and open judicial bias https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/opinion/alito-thomas-recuse-trump-jan-6.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vk0.ZD-U.Eb1zOFXzuNO-&smid=url-share
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Justice #Alito tells #Congress he will NOT #recuse from #Jan6 related cases
Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. announced Wed that he will not recuse himself from Jan. 6-related cases at #SCOTUS after Democratic lawmakers questioned whether he could be impartial following reports that an upside-down #flag flew at his home in the weeks after the… [ #insurrection].
#law #PartisanCourt #JudicialEthics #AppealToHeaven #ChristianNationalists
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/29/supreme-court-alito-recuse-flag-jan-6/ -
From Scott MacFarlane
@MacFarlaneNews
Alert: Justice Sam Alito will not recuse himself from cases involving Jan 6 and Trump.He responds by letter to inquiry from Senate Democrats saying (in part): “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. As soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused.”
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“Mrs. Alito ran toward their car and yelled something they did not understand. The couple continued driving, they said, and as they passed the Alito home again to exit the cul-de-sac, Mrs. Alito appeared to spit toward the vehicle.”
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#Alito #MarthaAnnAlito #Recuse #Resign #SCOTUS -
“Matters deteriorated from there, as Martha-Ann Alito allegedly spit at Baden’s vehicle during another encounter”
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#Alito #MarthaAnnAlito #Recuse #Resign #SCOTUS -
Senate Democrats demand that
Supreme Court Justice Samuel #Alito
🔸#recuse himself from certain cases
🔸and have called for a meeting with Chief Justice John #Roberts
to discuss #ethics in the court
after news broke that Mr Alito had flown flags used by Capitol riot participants.
Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin requested a meeting with Mr Roberts
to discuss their concerns about Mr Alito’s #impartialityIn 2021, shortly after Joe Biden took office, Mr Alito flew an
upside down American flag at his home in Virginia.
Under US flag code, a flag is never to be flown inverted “except as a signal of dire distress in instance of extreme danger to life or property.”
The New York Times and other outlets revealed that Mr Alito had previously flown an
"Appeal to Heaven" flag outside his New Jersey vacation home in the summer of 2023.
Individuals participating in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol in 2021 carried both inverted American flags and "Appeal to Heaven" flags
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/democrats-samuel-alito-recuse-bias-b2551516.html -
“The same goes for the flying of an #AppealToHeaven flag at Justice #Alito’s vacation house along the NJ shore. Like the #UpsideDown flag, this #flag is viewed by a great many people as a banner of allegiance on #partisan issues that are or could be before #SCOTUS.
#UnitedStates #law #PartisanCourt #JudicialEthics #Judiciary #TermLimits #Recuse #ChristianNationalists #Jan6 #insurrection
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New York Times: Another controversial flag spotted outside an Alito property | CNN Politics
"A flag that was on display during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol was flown outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s vacation home in New Jersey, according to a report in the New York Times on Wednesday."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/politics/alito-flag-new-york-times/index.html
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The upside-down flag was aloft on Jan 17, 2021, images showed. #Trump’s supporters, incl’g some brandishing the same symbol, had *rioted* at the Capitol a little over a week before. President #Biden’s inauguration was 3 days away. Alarmed neighbors snapped photographs, some…were recently obtained by The NYT. Word of the flag filtered back to the court, people who worked there said in interviews.
#SCOTUS #law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #LifetimeAppointments #TermLimits #Recuse #JudicialEthics
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https://www.npr.org/2023/08/10/1193162713/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-gifts-disclosure
#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #Justice #Corruption #Billionaires #Recuse #Impeach #ClarenceThomas #SamuelAlito #Alito #Graft #CarpetBaggers #WallStreet #Corporatocracy #SockPuppets #PuppetMasters #JohnRoberts #ChiefJustice #ProPublica #NPR
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https://www.npr.org/2023/08/10/1193162713/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-gifts-disclosure
#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #Justice #Corruption #Billionaires #Recuse #Impeach #ClarenceThomas #SamuelAlito #Alito #Graft #CarpetBaggers #WallStreet #Corporatocracy #SockPuppets #PuppetMasters #JohnRoberts #ChiefJustice #ProPublica #NPR
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https://www.npr.org/2023/08/10/1193162713/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-gifts-disclosure
#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #Justice #Corruption #Billionaires #Recuse #Impeach #ClarenceThomas #SamuelAlito #Alito #Graft #CarpetBaggers #WallStreet #Corporatocracy #SockPuppets #PuppetMasters #JohnRoberts #ChiefJustice #ProPublica #NPR
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https://www.npr.org/2023/08/10/1193162713/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-gifts-disclosure
#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #Justice #Corruption #Billionaires #Recuse #Impeach #ClarenceThomas #SamuelAlito #Alito #Graft #CarpetBaggers #WallStreet #Corporatocracy #SockPuppets #PuppetMasters #JohnRoberts #ChiefJustice #ProPublica #NPR
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In an opinion essay in The WSJ, Justice #Alito responded to questions about his #PrivateJet travel to a #luxury fishing trip w/a #GOP #MegaDonor #billionaire who frequently has cases before the #SupremeCourt hours before the ProPublica article was published.
The justice wrote he was not required to #disclose the trip or #recuse himself from his benefactor’s cases.
#SCOTUS #DarkMoney #Influence #Law #JudicialEthics
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/us/politics/justice-alito-luxury-travel-fishing-trip.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
