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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://twitter.com/glennkirschner2/status/1755438680724939108[/twitter][/quote]

[b]The Left’s Bad Faith Recusal Argument Targets Justice Thomas for His Principles and Success[/b]

[quote]Faced with a Supreme Court that for the first time in living memory is composed of a majority of originalists, and hampered by the failure of court-packing plans to gain steam, the Left is now trying to gin up interest in pseudo-ethics issues on the Court. It’s a cynical strategy to dull the influence of a Court they can’t control and a long-shot attempt to strategically remove justices from key cases. It has never truly been about ethics, of course, but is rather a transparent play for power that targets conservative justices in general and Justice Thomas in particular.

It’s hard to know where to begin to point out the double standard in play here.

As recent Supreme Court justices go, no one has presented more issues than Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her husband Marty, though he was a prominent tax lawyer, was never subjected to the newly-invented standards Democrats are trying to apply to Thomas. Justice Ginsburg participated in cases touching on areas her husband and his firm dealt with (though obviously not in cases in which he was directly involved). What’s more, as I have previously addressed in greater detail, she participated in 21 cases during the 1990s in which her husband Marty had actually invested in companies involved in the litigation—a blatant violation of the federal recusal statute. Is it any coincidence that these newly-concocted recusal standards weren’t floated while Ginsburg was on the Court?

As politically engaged judicial spouses go, Justice Thomas is not even in the same category as Judge Nina Pillard of the D.C. Circuit or the late Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit. Both sat on cases in which the ACLU participated, despite having spouses who worked for the activist group. Or Judge Marjorie Rendell of the Third Circuit, who before taking senior status was married to Ed Rendell, the mayor of Philadelphia, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and governor of Pennsylvania. Spouses do not get more political than when they chair a national party or get elected to high office.[/quote]

https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/the-lefts-bad-faith-recusal-argument-targets-justice-thomas-for-his-principles-and-success/[/quote]

Oh look! One of Thomas's former clerks, a federalist society stooge, has an opinion.
The absolute gall to accuse “the left “ of court packing is pathetic. [/quote]

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