Republican-appointed justices NEVER recuse..Why are Dem-appointeds the only ones who seem obligated to do it?
Norms and rules are sooooo passé.. Even though we would have lost anyway 5-4, at least stay in the fight, Sonia...what are they gonna do..fire you?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/sotomayor-sit-out-colorado-faithless-electors-supreme-court-case-n1154856
March 10, 2020, 2:28 PM PDT
By Pete Williams
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will not participate next month when the court hears one of two cases that could change a key element of the system America uses to elect its president — the Electoral College.
The court disclosed Tuesday that Sotomayor took herself off a case from Colorado involving a challenge to a state law directing how presidential electors must cast their votes because of a personal friendship with one of the challengers. That friend, Polly Baca, was one of three electors who argue that they ought to be able to vote for the candidate of their choice instead of the person who won the popular vote in the state — what's known as a "faithless elector."
In a letter to the lawyers in the case, the Supreme Court's clerk, Scott Harris, said Sotomayor concluded that "her impartiality might reasonably be questioned due to her friendship with respondent Polly Baca." The letter said Sotomayor and her clerks failed to catch the potential conflict when the case was first brought to the court.
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