person let alone supreme court justice who is ever going to be intimidated by these kinds of tactics. especially those who would just saw from senator klobuchar. he represents herself as a moderate democrat but boy she looks closer to me too aoc than she does secure since sinema. there is also a special status your own recusal for the supreme court. unlike lower court judges the substitute one for another, there plenty of them around the appellate court has to get off a panel for recusal. you put another appellate court judge on there s only nine supreme court justices. if one recuse of the possibility exists of a four/four ruling which of course is not fair to the litigants because they want some kind of resolution to the case. so supreme court justices have to be careful when they decide to recuse. they re related to a direct
white house proposing $2.5 trillion in tax increases over the next ten years paid the president as usual saying this just a matter of the rich paying their fair share. just pay your fair share paid pay a little bit. a fire fighter a teacher pay more than double, double the tax rate that a billionaire pays. that s not right. that is not fair. all right, kim and i know you are a consummate believer in fairness. what i want to know is this question of whether this budget actually is a pivot to the middle that some people in the press court certainly the white house what is to believe, is it? know. only if the middle has been moved to the 50-yard lines up and move the other guys end zone. this is nuts, paul it s not math. if you look at fiscal 2019 the federal government had at least
five democrats stepping up their attacks on supreme court justice clarence thomas after it was revealed last week that his wife sent text messages to then white house chief of staff mark meadows encouraging to challenge donald trump s 2020 election law sprayed the growing course on the left calling on justice thomas to resign or be impeached or at least recuse himself from any cases related to january 6. here s minnesota senator amy klobuchar. you have the wife of a sitting supreme court justice advocating for an insurrection. advocating for overturning a legal election. this is a textbook case for removing him, recusing him from these decisions. the entire integrity of the court is on the line here.
automatic problem that reflects on that impartiality? not at all. this is an utterly false argument. especially in our day and age. our colleague, jason riley wrote in his column this week about several other federal judges who have had spouses who work for instance for the aclu. and no one ever suggested the fact their spouse work for the aclu would affect their decision about the conduct thoughts and ideas they bring before the court. this is in effect to basically delegitimize justice at thomas and indeed the conservative side of the courts. this is the way the democrats play supreme court politics. they know they ve got some big cases come in for the court on abortion, gun rights, the administrative state and they are trying to intimidate clarence thomas. and as we know this is the last
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