Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito expressed his opposition to the request from Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) for him to recuse himself from an upcoming case.
The senator had sent a letter urging the justice to step away due to the fact that a lawyer in the case had previously interviewed him while working as a journalist.
????Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito: Senate Democrat Durbin’s Call for Recusal ‘Unsoundhttps://t.co/l8jnZL0n4D
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“’This argument is unsound,’ Alito responded. He explained that the lawyer in question – David Rivkin – was acting as a journalist in the interview, then went through a litany of other justices who participated in interviews with media companies who then had cases before the court. None of those other justices recused in any of those cases,” Breitbart News reported.
“This continues the Far Left’s pattern of attempting ‘reverse court-packing,’ in which Democrats failed to pass legislation to add seats to the Supreme Court, so they are instead making historically ungrounded arguments as to why conservative justices must not sit on certain cases,” it added.
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“Because this case is scheduled to be heard soon, and because of the attention my planned participation in this case has already received, I respond to these concerns now,” Alito wrote in a four-page statement Friday.
“There is no valid reason for my recusal in this case,” Alito continued.
Justice Samuel Alito schools Senate Democrats on 'unsound' demand he recuse himself https://t.co/W8EcGYfOEN
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“Justice Alito, of the originalist school of thinking that empty seats on an airplane don’t count as gifts, surprises no one by sitting on a case involving a lawyer who honored him with a puff piece in the Wall Street Journal. Why do these Justices continue to take a wrecking ball to the reputation of the highest court in the land?” Durbin said.
“The Court is in a crisis of its own making, and Justice Alito and the rest of the Court should be doing everything in their power to regain public trust, not the opposite,” he added.
Durbin has consistently opposed the appointment of justices deemed to be conservative by many and has sought to introduce legislation that would restrict their ability to rule on cases with ramifications for Democrats.
His efforts have thus far been unsuccessful, yet he is expected to continue his fight while conservatives maintain a majority in the court.
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Stand your ground, Justice Alito.
Well, if liberal twits want Alito to step aside just because he’s conservative, I want the liberal ones to step aside because they’re liberal. Those people have the maturity level of a temper tantrum throwing two year old.
THE marxist-liberal-democrat playbook in action again. It’s a play we should all be familiar with by now.
“The Court is in crisis” only because Dick Durbin says so. Hush Dick
F*#K dickhead turban in his biden!!
I have a friend that grew up with and attended all if his school years with Dick Durbin. He told me that Durbin was a dick then, and still is ………..
I have a friend that grew up with and attended all if his school years with Dick Durbin. He told me that Durbin was a dick then, and still is today………..
I think Jackson, Sotomayor, and Kagen should step aside from the court because they are a disgrace to the human race. Along with the unhonorable numbnuts Dick Durbin.
Hey Dick, do you wear your Durbin on your willie.?
FJB AND every Communist Democrat and Rino.
Durbin should recuse himself from any position of power and influence!