Raskin calls for Alito to recuse himself from Trump case

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

01/09/25 8:32 PM ET


Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, called on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from President-elect Trump’s hush money criminal case in a statement on Thursday.

Raskin, in making his case, pointed to reporting that Alito and Trump spoke by phone “just hours” before Trump’s legal team asked the Supreme Court to intervene to halt his criminal sentencing in the New York case involving hush money payments before the 2016 election.

“Justice Alito has made his political leanings and support for the president-elect clear, whether it be his display of flags in apparent support of the January 6th insurrectionists and the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement, or his self-proclaimed ideological battle with ‘the Left,’” Raskin wrote in his statement.

“In our democracy, Americans expect their cases to be heard by impartial judges. This concept of impartiality goes back further than the Court’s own Code of Conduct and underlies even the earliest versions of the federal recusal statute,” he continued. Raskin noted that Alito confirmed the phone call but said he and Trump did not discuss Trump’s emergency application to halt the sentencing.

Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5078143-raskin-calls-for-alito-to-recuse-himself-from-trump-case/

[Irish_Dem]

1. The GOP SC justices are totally corrupt and comprised.

They don't even hide it.

One of them supported the insurrection.
This is treason. He is a traitor.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

2. x10!

[Oopsie Daisy]

3. Does the USSC even have the power to do that? It's a STATE issue not a FEDERAL one.

[FakeNoose]

11. Chump was trying to get SCOTUS to extend his "presidential immunity" ruling

Now he wants "immunity" to cover the time before he became President. It's not gonna happen. If it ever does, we might as well tear up the Constitution.

Chump's crime - I'm talking about this hush money conviction - was committed before he became President. Why should "presidential immunity" be allowed for that? He's already going to weasel out of all the crimes he committed AS president, like stealing and hiding the top-secret documents.

[johnnyfins]

4. Its over. SCOTUS denied TSFs request

[mdbl]

5. Sure, because the supreme court has ethics. NOT!

Alito doesn't give a shit how it looks or what he should do. They have no shame.

[Paladin]

6. Thank you, Rep. Raskin.

Nice to see a Democrat taking a forceful, principled stand on something.

[Butterflylady]

7. Sure dump and alito didn't discuss dumps case.

I'll believe that when he'll freezes over. Dump always talks himself.

[Martin68]

8. Alito won't recuse himself, but the negative publicity will hurt his poor little ego. Raskin lays out a clear and

compelling case against Alito. One which will never be reported on Fox News.

[republianmushroom]

9. Forget it, that would show morals and ethics, something

that is lacking in some supreme court justices.

[markpkessinger]

10. The blog, Above the Law,. has a great piece on this . . .

https://abovethelaw.com/2025/01/sam-alito-offers-flimsy-excuse-for-conversation-with-donald-trump/?utm_campaign=Above%20the%20Law%20Daily&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8LRW915OupZ0DPZ8j2ev4KQJExI6dn1AVPT5GDpjMGowIYz78PAeHUz2dDoPtORWV1pqLBseivz4znvFl8viboTm8WzA&_hsmi=341914245&utm_content=341914245&utm_source=hs_email

[Quanto Magnus]

12. Alito

would never do that .... That corrupt activist judge will continue to sit in and make (protective) decisions for donOLD.

[Quanto Magnus]

13. The regressive side of

the SCOTUS has never been impartial.

They want the 1800's back

[Evolve Dammit]

14. Yeah right...

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Alito and Trump make the Supreme Court's troubles even worse

As the far-right justice faces yet another controversy, he doesn’t exactly have a deep reservoir of credibility he can turn to in response.
https://bsky.app/profile/stevebenen.com/post/3lfctpl6a4c2c

As Samuel Alito faces yet another ethics mess of his own making, he doesn't exactly have a deep reservoir of credibility he can turn to in response.

Only about a third of Americans have confidence in the courts. Alito's in a position to push that number lower.

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/alito-trump-make-supreme-courts-troubles-even-worse-rcna186946

While I can appreciate Roberts’ concerns about the high court’s institutional reputation, if he wants to better understand why public confidence is faltering to historic degrees, there’s no shortage of evidence for the chief justice to consider. Take the latest NBC News report, for example.

Justice Samuel Alito confirmed Wednesday that he took a phone call from Donald Trump one day before the president-elect asked the Supreme Court to halt his upcoming sentencing, but insisted that the case was not discussed. Alito said in a statement that they spoke Tuesday afternoon after one of his former law clerks, William Levi, “asked me to take a call from President-elect Trump regarding his qualifications to serve in a government position.”

So let me see if I have this straight. According to the official version of events, Trump wanted to speak to the Supreme Court conservative on Tuesday about an applicant for a job in his incoming administration. As The New York Times’ report noted, it’s unclear why the president-elect would personally “make a call to check references, a task generally left to lower-level aides.”

The two men did, in fact, chat — again, according to the official version of events — and one day later, Trump’s lawyers filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court, as part of a larger effort to delay sentencing in the Republican’s criminal case in New York.......

We are, after all, talking about a sitting justice who has earned a reputation as the Supreme Court’s most unyielding ideologue, who has delivered a series of overtly political speeches, who’s issued public endorsements of a conservative advocacy group’s work, who thought it’d be a good idea to defend the Supreme Court’s integrity at a pro-Trump organization exactly two weeks before the 2022 midterm elections, who’s appeared a bit too cozy with The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, and who’s declared his indifference to congressional oversight in ways that were panned as “stunningly wrong.”

And did I mention the justice’s flag controversies? Because they’re another piece of the same unsightly mosaic.

Only about a third of Americans have confidence in their own country’s judiciary, but there’s no reason to assume that number can’t drop further.

Roberts needs to make sure that Alito and Thomas recuse themselves on any issue regarding trump and the J6 report