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DOJ can 'force' Alito, Thomas to recuse themselves on SCOTUS cases: Dem lawmaker
Fox News ^ | May 30, 2024 | Lindsay Kornick

Posted on 05/30/2024 9:34:38 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

Top Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin argued in the New York Times this week that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito could, in theory, be forced to step down from cases related to the January 6 Capitol riots.

In a guest essay for the New York Times on Wednesday, Raskin detailed ways Thomas and Alito could be forced to recuse themselves from the upcoming Trump v. United States and Fischer v. United States, both involving former President Trump's role during the Capitol protests.

"Of course, Justices Alito and Thomas could choose to recuse themselves — wouldn’t that be nice? But begging them to do the right thing misses a far more effective course of action," Raskin wrote.

Alito and Thomas, both nominated by Republican presidents and part of the Supreme Court's conservative wing, have come under fire from Democrats and mainstream media in recent months over claims that they cannot objectively rule on matters around Jan. 6.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

If Samuel Alito should recuse himself because of a flag flown 3 years ago, then Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson should recuse herself from any case impacting women, since she cannot define what a woman is.


101 posted on 05/31/2024 6:20:24 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Dr.Deth

oh man, that is FU FUnny right there.

tthanks for the laugh.

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102 posted on 05/31/2024 6:35:20 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

It’s a close call between Raskin and Schiff of who is the biggest leftwing jerk in Congress. There are plenty of other lefty scoundrels, to be sure, but they are also-rans compared to these two.


103 posted on 05/31/2024 6:40:50 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

They know it’s BS it is all about intimidation and marginalization.


104 posted on 05/31/2024 6:47:33 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: SharpRightTurn

Schiff is a client of the daughter of that piece of shite judge in NY


105 posted on 05/31/2024 6:52:52 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: OakOak
The people with guns and handcuffs have the power - and they know it.

Things are changing rapidly.


Or, they could do what they did with Trump, come up with bogus charges in a hostile state court (e.g. New York, California) and tie them up and even put them in jail.
106 posted on 05/31/2024 6:53:35 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: Sertorius

Fine. Let the march Thomas and Alito out at gunpoint and finally give everyone a real wake up call about what sort of government we actually have now.


107 posted on 05/31/2024 6:59:54 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The dumbassery runs deep in this one.


108 posted on 05/31/2024 7:04:22 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

It’s nonsense. But they will try.


109 posted on 05/31/2024 8:00:26 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

In theory, there is a “separation of powers.”

Make that IN PRACTICE.

Morons.


110 posted on 05/31/2024 8:02:02 AM PDT by fwdude ( )
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear; cld51860
I know it started over 100 years ago....but 2008 really clinched it.

Actually, 2000 clinched it. That is when I noticed that Democrats and their Party became completely demon-possessed. That's the point when I really jumped into paying attention to politics. The evil was just too blatant to ignore.

111 posted on 05/31/2024 8:07:27 AM PDT by fwdude ( )
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To: freddy005

Oh, I am fully awake. I was pointing out the lawless government way back when I got ridiculed as crazy for even suggesting such a thing. In fact, I started my blog with a post explaining that I didn’t much care about Barack Obama but the lawlessness that I had personally observed within all levels of government was going to kill this nation unless we found a way to stop it.


112 posted on 05/31/2024 8:18:14 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: OakOak

The Weaponization of Government committee should be investigating the government supercomputer “The Hammer” along with Dennis Montgomery’s software for it, HAMR which was exposed in Wikileaks’ Vault 7 dump. Montgomery says that John Brennan and James Clapp0er had him write software that would allow that supercomputer to spy on anybody but in particular judges and justices as well as members of the media and Congress and Donald Trump. He said the purpose was to get bribery material.

There was a reason that Roberts very, very unhappily “changed his mind” on Obamacare, and if Jim Jordan can follow the tracks that Montgomery can provide, they could get to the bottom of this and a lot of other crap that goes on in DC.

Montgomery was given immunity in return for his massive loads of evidence but then the FBI gagged him and buried everything.

I actually believe that getting to the bottom of Brennan and Clapper’s treason is essential if we’re ever going to get our country back.

Oh - and Montgomery also says that he was commissioned to get “The Hammer” to download the FL voter database in 2012 and re-upload a revised version so that it could be altered without leaving an evidence. He said he was commissioned to do the same thing on the Hawaii Dept of Health database, multiple times in 2012.

Brennan and Clapper are armpit-deep in the treason that was Barack Obama and in stealing elections - in addition to bribing and/or attacking justices, judges, lawmakers, media people, and Donald Trump. This hellhole goes DEEP, and nothing gets fixed until we mine down to the very bottom pit and throw every minion in prison.


113 posted on 05/31/2024 8:30:39 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Rocco DiPippo

Megyn Kelly said that red-state DA’s and AG’s need to start indicting people right and left, now that open lawfare is upon us. She said, basically, that until these people have to sleep in the bed they pooped all over, they will keep pooping (my paraphrase).

And it’s true. The difficulty that I see is, for instance, how does Ken Paxton in TX come up with jurisdiction for crimes Jamie Raskins commits in DC?

One thing I suggest, though, is that some prosecutor look long and hard at the stuff Laura Loomer has brought out. For instance, the congressman - Goldman? - who misspelled Authentic Campaigns on his payments so that it would hide that he was paying Merchan’s daughter. That, right there, is a falsification of records, and he should be slammed with it IMMEDIATELY! The issue is who can do it, when all the crap happens in the turd-world republic of New York.


114 posted on 05/31/2024 8:37:21 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Judge Bean

There have now been 2 lawfare cases against Trump that have been allowed because the state of New York allows statute of limitations to be “extended” (one by a law specifically allowing E Jean Carrol to sue and one by a law that converted a misdemeanor to be resurrected as a felony).

Congress can’t pass laws that apply retroactively but can they do what NY did for E Jean Carrol? Can they temporarily allow 30-year-old crimes to be prosecuted now, in spite of the statute of limitations?


115 posted on 05/31/2024 8:44:10 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: MCSETots

Alito already told them to piss off.

Apparently Roberts, too.

Not that it will stop them.


116 posted on 05/31/2024 8:54:18 AM PDT by cld51860 ("This business will get out of control...")
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To: butterdezillion

What date did the SoL run out? If it happened before the extension, legally, my argument would be that, in order to satisfy the 14th amendment, the extension would have had to happen before the Statute of Limitations on any particular crime ran out. You cannot constitutionally resurrect a crime that is dead.


117 posted on 05/31/2024 8:55:22 AM PDT by jpp113
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To: butterdezillion

Great Question! We will see how willing Republicans are to get in the trough with the Democrats. Sad, but we will see.


118 posted on 05/31/2024 3:11:35 PM PDT by Judge Bean
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To: Paal Gulli

They try to destroy everything American/Constitutional/white/heterosexual/ Christian/rational.


119 posted on 05/31/2024 3:47:27 PM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in 5.)
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To: Paal Gulli

Science/nature/normal/common sense/traditional/cultural...


120 posted on 05/31/2024 3:51:22 PM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in 5.)
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