WASHINGTON, DC – Supreme Court docket Justice Samuel Alito rejected calls from Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) for his recusal from an upcoming case, saying the partisan Democrat’s argument is legally “unsound.”
Durbin despatched a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts on August 3, urging Roberts “to take applicable steps to make sure” that Alito recused. Alito refused to take action (and there’s no indication that Roberts requested him to) and issued a press release explaining his determination.
Alito educated Durbin on the legislation by means of his assertion, instructing the leftwing Senate Judiciary Committee chairman that “when there isn’t a sound cause for a Justice to recuse, the Justice has an obligation to sit down” on the bench and listen to every case.
“There isn’t a legitimate cause for my recusal on this case,” Alito noticed. Durbin known as for recusal as a result of Alito had participated in a public interview that was partly performed by a lawyer who was going to argue a case earlier than the Supreme Court docket.
“This argument is unsound,” Alito responded. He defined that the lawyer in query – David Rivkin – was appearing as a journalist within the interview, then went by means of a litany of different justices who participated in interviews with media corporations who then had instances earlier than the courtroom.
None of these different justices recused in any of these instances.
This continues the Far Left’s sample of trying “reverse court-packing,” by which Democrats didn’t cross laws so as to add seats to the Supreme Court docket, so they’re as an alternative making traditionally ungrounded arguments as to why conservative justices should not sit on sure instances.
Partisan Democrats extra usually assault Justice Clarence Thomas, as they just lately tried concerning the justice’s friendships, solely to see their smears backfire when Thomas’s monetary disclosures refute the accusations. The Left is even going after non-public residents who’re associates with the conservative justices, like Leonard Leo, the chairman of the nonprofit, nonpartisan Federalist Society.
As Alito defined of Senate Democrats’ newest try to gaslight American voters, “that idea essentially misunderstands the circumstances underneath which Supreme Court docket Justices should work.”
Breitbart Information senior authorized contributor Ken Klukowski is a lawyer who served within the White Home and Justice Division.