Timeline for Would a Trump-nominated Supreme Court justice be expected to recuse themselves from a Trump case?
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| Oct 23, 2022 at 5:26 | comment | added | uhoh | Different but somewhat related in Politics SE: If a US supreme court nominee is selected by political opportunism, does the nominee ignoring that demonstrate insufficient ethics for the job? | |
| Oct 22, 2022 at 16:29 | comment | added | user608 | @AndrewHenle Oh, yeah. Politics rarely cares what the law or precedent is. Could you imagine the cascade of crazy if judges recused themselves everytime a political topic associated with their nominating party came before them? | |
| Oct 22, 2022 at 14:10 | comment | added | Andrew Henle | As if the Supreme Court has any standard for recusal: "Conservative groups say Kagan should sit out the case because she led the office that began preparing the Obama administration’s healthcare defense before she was tapped for the high court." | |
| Oct 22, 2022 at 3:03 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Oct 21, 2022 at 20:24 | comment | added | phoog | @DavidSiegel in addition, they've recently declined to hear some Trump cases, and when justices recuse themselves from deliberations about whether to hear a case, this is noted in the order. I haven't seen any of these orders, but I imagine that any recusals would have been reported in the press. | |
| Oct 21, 2022 at 20:03 | comment | added | David Siegel | @Trish They have heard various other recent cases to which Trump was a party, so I doubt they would decline nit on that ground alone. Of course they only hear a small number of cases each term. | |
| Oct 21, 2022 at 19:59 | comment | added | Trish | @DavidSiegel ok, that might work, but I would more expect that SCOTUS might just say "we don't hear that case..." | |
| Oct 21, 2022 at 19:55 | comment | added | David Siegel | @Teish The Jan 6 Committee is a House committee, not the whole House, much less the Senate. If Trump sues to quash a subpoena, as he may well do, any decision could be appealed, and such an appeal could wind up before the Supreme Court. | |
| Oct 21, 2022 at 19:45 | answer | added | user6726 | timeline score: 20 | |
| Oct 21, 2022 at 19:38 | answer | added | David Siegel | timeline score: 34 | |
| Oct 21, 2022 at 19:17 | comment | added | Trish | the committee is the senate, right? how would that case end in SCOTUS? | |
| Oct 21, 2022 at 19:01 | history | asked | TheEnvironmentalist | CC BY-SA 4.0 |