Sotomayor recuses from one of two Supreme Court cases with consequences for electoral college

[Marcuse]

Source: Washington Post

Justice Sonia Sotomayor will not participate in one of the two cases the Supreme Court will hear in April to decide whether the Constitution forbids states from dictating how members of the electoral college cast their votes for president.

The clerk of the court informed lawyers in the case Tuesday that Sotomayor realized she is friends with one of the parties in one of the cases, from Colorado. Sotomayor will still participate in the other case, from the state of Washington.


“The justice believes that her impartiality might reasonably be questioned due to her friendship with respondent Polly Baca,” Supreme Court Clerk Scott S. Harris wrote. “The initial conflict check conducted in Justice Sotomayor’s Chambers did not identify this potential conflict.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/sotomayor-recuse-supreme-court-electoral-college/2020/03/10/145a0b1c-6307-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html

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Plaintiffs’ lawyers should have seen this coming.

[SergeStorms]

1. Do you think a conservative SC justice......

would recuse themselves from anything? Not a chance!

[rictofen]

3. They all have actually

Some recuse with great frequency. Here are the numbers just for one year / term.

https://fixthecourt.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/OT18-recusals-chart.pdf

[mountain grammy]

4. Thanks for that link.

Interesting.

[brush]

2. Don't know how to take this. Repugs wouldn't recuse.

[mahina]

5. Turns out no

Not the same as you but I was wrong about that turns out https://fixthecourt.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/OT18-recusals-chart.pdf
Thanks to the poster above

[onenote]

6. You should check post #3