Alito will not recuse in case involving lawyer who interviewed him

[BidenPresident]

Senate Judiciary Committee Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and other Democrats on the committee wrote to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. last month saying that Alito had crossed an ethical line in giving two interviews to Rivkin and Journal editorial page features editor James Taranto while Rivkin at the same time is representing a couple seeking Supreme Court review of a tax case. The court said in June that it would hear the case in the term that begins in October. One of the interviews occurred after that.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/08/alito-recusal-wall-street-journal-rivkin/

 

[BidenPresident]

Justice Alito rejects Senate Democrats’ call to step aside from an upcoming Supreme C

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Samuel Alito on Friday rejected demands from Senate Democrats that he step aside from an upcoming Supreme Court case because of his interactions with one of the lawyers, in a fresh demonstration of tensions over ethical issues.

Alito attached an unusual statement to an otherwise routine list of orders from the court. “There is no valid reason for my recusal in this case,” Alito wrote in a four-page statement.

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have been highly critical of Alito and the rest of the court for failing to adopt an ethics code, following reports of undisclosed paid trips taken by Justice Clarence Thomas and, on one occasion, by Alito. The committee approved an ethics code for the court on a party-line vote, though it is unlikely to become law.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-...te-democrats-89bcb5186b03acc0dab353e6c2aa01a3

 

[Lionfish]

Senate Judiciary Committee Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and other Democrats on the committee wrote to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. last month saying that Alito had crossed an ethical line in giving two interviews to Rivkin and Journal editorial page features editor James Taranto while Rivkin at the same time is representing a couple seeking Supreme Court review of a tax case. The court said in June that it would hear the case in the term that begins in October. One of the interviews occurred after that.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/08/alito-recusal-wall-street-journal-rivkin/

Call the FBI

 

[NiftyNiblick]

Alito is similar to Giuliani and DeSantis--
fellow Italian-Americans,
but very different in that they all needed to be aborted,
even if it had to be post-natal.

Time for them to join Scalia.