[Torie]

Maybe Roberts said that if he felt that his personal views would cause him to be unable to fairly apply the law as a matter of conscience, he would recuse himself. What do you think? Of course, such a recusal on those grounds has NEVER happened, ever, so far as I know. Judges always feel they can be fair, always. They sometimes recuse themselves on the basis on conflict on interest given the parties involved. That is about it.

[CWOJackson]

I have serious reservations about a judge announcing in advance that they would recuse themself on a specific topic. That would be no different then indicating how they would decide on the same topic.

This doesn't pass the smell test...and it's already been posted under a different newspaper banner.