Gift article, no paywall
Illegitimate court. If you can’t conduct yourself with honesty, your rulings cannot be trusted.
Bold of you to assume that they care what the
plebspeople thinkThe interesting thing about the court is their power comes from our belief in their legitimacy. They don’t have any repercussions if the executive and legislature completely ignores their rulings.
It’s a system of giant novelty checks and balancing said checking account.
And I got down voted for saying that distrust in the judicial system is becoming a bipartisan effort (following the Trump verdict).
Regarding the appearance of impropriety these facts are pretty straightforward.
If he recuses himself, he loses his voice in this case, if he doesn’t, the supreme Court loses it’s trustworthiness.
He chose, and he didn’t do it wisely. Most people in power don’t think of the consequences right up until the consequences and it looks to me like it takes a civil war for everyone to realize how badly they need trust in the system.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Members of the Supreme Court recently reaffirmed the practice we have followed for 235 years pursuant to which individual justices decide recusal issues,” he wrote.
The chief justice also rejected a request to meet with Democratic senators to discuss ethics at the Supreme Court, writing that doing so would raise concerns about separation of powers and judicial independence.
Democratic lawmakers have sounded alarms over ethics and impartiality after revelations in recent weeks that flags displayed outside two of Justice Alito’s residences appeared to back the “Stop the Steal” movement.
One, an upside-down American flag, flew over the justice’s front lawn at his Virginia home in January 2021 as the court was considering whether to hear a 2020 election case.
The second, an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a symbol carried on Jan. 6 and associated with a push for a more Christian-minded government, flew at the justice’s New Jersey beach house last summer.
The court has been under increased scrutiny over ethics questions since revelations last year that Justice Clarence Thomas had failed to disclose decades of luxury gifts and travel from wealthy conservatives.
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The recently-appointed chair fillers (and Thommy the Traitor) care not a whit for justice. Only their payola.
