The Roberts Rules of Recusal

When it comes to recusal, Senators Whitehouse and Durbin have the ethics of the Supreme Court completely backwards.

AP/J. Scott Applewhite
Chief Justice Roberts at the Supreme Court building, October 7, 2022. AP/J. Scott Applewhite

Chief Justice Roberts didn’t just fall off the turnip truck. That’s what we take from his rebuff of the demand from Senators Durbin and Whitehouse for a meeting about Justice Samuel Alito’s flagpole. It was necessary because of the unceasing efforts of Democratic lawmakers to harry a court that has swung conservative. What they cannot gain via litigation they seek to accomplish with intimidation and grandstanding from without.

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