Supreme Courtroom Justice Samuel Alito has rejected a request from high Senate Democrats to recuse himself from upcoming instances associated to the 1/6 assault.
Alito wrote partially to Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI):
My spouse is keen on flying flags. I’m not. My spouse was solely answerable for having flagpoles put up at our residence and our trip house and has flown all kinds of flags through the years. Along with the American flag, she has flown different patriotic flags (together with a favourite flag thanking veterans), faculty flags, flags supporting sports activities groups, state and native flags, flags of countries from which the ancestors of relations got here, flags of locations we have now visited, seasonal flags, and
spiritual flags.
1 was not acquainted with the “Attraction to Heaven” flag when my spouse flew it. She might have talked about that it dates again to the American Revolution, and T assumed she was flying it to precise a spiritual and patriotic message. I used to be not conscious of any connection between this historic flag and the “Cease the Steal Motion,” and neither was my spouse. She didn’t fly it to affiliate herself with that or every other group, and using an outdated historic flag by a brand new group doesn’t essentially drain
that flag of all different meanings.
As I stated in reference to the opposite flag occasion, my spouse is an independently ‘minded non-public citizen. She makes her personal choices, and I honor her proper to take action. Our trip house was bought with cash she inherited from her dad and mom and is titled in her title. It’s a place, away from Washington, the place she ought to be capable to chill out.
An affordable one who shouldn’t be motivated by political or ideological concerns or a want to have an effect on the end result of Supreme Courtroom instances would conclude that this occasion doesn’t meet the relevant customary for recusal. I’m due to this fact duty-bound to reject your recusal request.
Alito remains to be blaming his spouse for every little thing whereas refusing to recuse himself from instances the place he’s clearly conflicted. The vanity of Justice Alito’s letter is a textbook instance of why Supreme Courtroom reform is desperately wanted.
No particular person ready of energy with a lifetime appointment needs to be making their very own choices on recusal.
The conservative Supreme Courtroom majority is clearly corrupted, and since they consider themselves to be the regulation, the laws department must step in and regulate them.
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