Posted on 03/10/2020 7:47:34 PM PDT by Eddie01
Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor will recuse herself from a case regarding the electoral college according to a new report from Wapo.
A letter explains her rationale as she is friends with one of the parties.
Last month, reacting to a Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s claim that the GOP appointed Justices are being biased in his favor, President Trump called for both Sotomayor and Ginsburg to have to recuse themselves from “Trump related” matters.
“Sotomayor accuses GOP appointed Justices of being biased in favor of Trump.” @IngrahamAngle @FoxNews This is a terrible thing to say. Trying to “shame” some into voting her way? She never criticized Justice Ginsberg when she called me a “faker”. Both should recuse themselves..
...on all Trump, or Trump related, matters! While “elections have consequences”, I only ask for fairness, especially when it comes to decisions made by the United States Supreme Court!
Wapo reports Justice Sonia Sotomayor will not participate in one of the two cases the Supreme Court will hear in April to decide whether the Constitution forbids states from dictating how members of the electoral college cast their votes for president.
The clerk of the court informed lawyers in the case Tuesday that Sotomayor realized she is friends with one of the parties in one of the cases, from Colorado. Sotomayor will still participate in the other case, from the state of Washington.
“The justice believes that her impartiality might reasonably be questioned due to her friendship with respondent Polly Baca,” Supreme Court Clerk Scott S. Harris wrote. “The initial conflict check conducted in Justice Sotomayor’s Chambers did not identify this potential conflict.”
That is somewhat surprising. According to news reports, Baca and Sotomayor consider each other old family friends, and Baca attended Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing. According to an article in the Denver Post, Baca organized a gathering in Denver to watch the confirmation vote, and Sotomayor joined them via speakerphone.
“Polly, you know how much I love you, and how much I love your senators, who both voted for me,” Sotomayor said, according to the report.
Justices decide for themselves whether to recuse from a case, even though President Trump recently called on Sotomayor and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to recuse from anything “Trump-related” that came before the court. Neither responded, and this case is not one that could provide an obvious partisan advantage.
Does anyone actually believe that she will? I don’t.
She is a self-proclaimed racist. She shouldn’t be hearing any cases.
Sounds like she just did. A wonderment.
“Justices decide for themselves whether to recuse from a case, even though President Trump recently called on Sotomayor and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to recuse from anything “Trump-related” that came before the court. Neither responded, and this case is not one that could provide an obvious partisan advantage.”
Big effin deal. She recuses from a meaningless case, so she can “prove” she isn’t biased. She thinks we’re as stupid as she is.
Wow. I can barely believe this. Leftists just don’t do this.
And they fully expect our side to do it at the drop of a hat. I am frankly a little flabbergasted.
I am astonished because she did it even on an obscure thing.
Of course, this one might have been so obvious she had no choice.
Like you, I can see things equally obvious where it ain’t gonna happen.
Just wow. What’s the catch?
Ruthieeeee?
There are two cases challenging the electoral college. Sotomayer is being disingenuous because she can recuse herself from one but still vote her political bias on the other to overturn the electoral college and get the very same result. She knows that. She is a sleazeball
There are no Obama judges. Roberts will say she is the kind of upstanding justice that should rule on the case.
RBG should recuse from any case involving Trump policies because of her unethical public comments about trump starting during the election.
That’s going to probably leave a tie. Is she getting what she wants by doing this?
I’d guess she was somehow told that the cat was out of the bag as far as her friendship with party in question and was given a choice to go quietly and she took it. I see it as a very good sign of Trump’s will being done.
It's pretty clear that nullifying the electoral college would be unconstitutional and this is just her way of voting that reality while seeming not to.
She find that once a recluse she always end up trying to not be a recluse.
She probably got her hands on that info the communist have on Roberts... So he’ll cover for her in any votes...
There's a process for that.
A Pedocrat recusing themselves? Srsly?
This is unheard of!
She is friends with an interested party. The friend lives in her apartment.
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