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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Yep. I know it started over 100 years ago....but 2008 really clinched it.
Well, Jamie Raskin, if you can force Alito and Thomas to recuse...well, guess what...
WE CAN FORCE SOTOMYOR, KAGEN AND THE OTHER NUT CASE...WHOSE NAME I DON’T REMEMBER...
TO BE FORCED TO RECUSE...SEE HOW THIS THING WORKS??????
Oh, I noticed a long, long time ago.
It needs to stop and if I was Trump I’d be in just the mood about right now to take a wrecking ball to the whole corrupt den of them on Jan 20, 2025.
I aim to do everything I can to see it happen.
Perhaps it isn’t about savvy but control over all institutions. Media, Government, “Charitable” foundations...
DOJ = America’s KGB
Well at this point along the road to banana republic the DOJ probably can. Long ago when we were a Constitutional Republic the answer would be no.
As if there weren’t enough proof given today that the DemonRats have utter contempt for the Constitution and rule of law. {spit}
The #ing Rat is doing nothing more than poising a potential SCOTUS reversal.
I have no doubt they believe it.
See Comey and Strzok.
It’s telling the Dems are good with Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett
Yep....this guy’s a dirtbag.
We keep saying they can't do this, they can't do that.
BUT THEY DO IT, ANYWAY!
The Pesident pardons someone. A judge says he is still going to be judged.
The Supreme Court rules on a case. A lower court says that ruling is null and void, and continues to block a law.
When are people going to wake up and realize we are not living in the United States that we used to know.
When are people going to wake up and realize we are not living in the United States as envisioned by those who won this Nation's independence!
WAKE UP!
Raskin says the Supreme Court “can’t override a congressional command.”
If that’s the case, they don’t stop there. Why wouldn’t they tell them what cases to prioritize and what is the desired outcome?
I’d be worried that the Dems are happy with Kavanaugh and Coney-Barrett
How’s that SCOTUS Leak investigation going?
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
I wouldn’t be Uber-confident in this deteriorating society.
The people with guns and handcuffs have the power - and they know it.
Did you think 12 years ago today that stealing and B&E would essentially not be pursued and the perps wouldn’t even be held.
Things are changing rapidly.
“They come from the place where Antonin Scalia perished at a time most convenient for the left.”
Demonrats are essentially threatening Alito and Thomas with the same fate. Everyone with half a brain knows Scalia was terminated. Nothing is beyond them and congressional republicans probably know how they work. Their families are at risk.
Wish that cancer would hurry up.
Sorry but the DOJ can do no such thing
The judiciary does not answer to the executive
The executive cannot order a Supreme Court Justice to recuse themselves or anything else for that matter
“Vee haf vays!”
They still have that? You could have fooled me.
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