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Bookmark or Share- Supreme Court Recusal | ACS - American Constitution SocietyRecusal – the act of a specific judge or justice being removed from a specific case, typically for ethical reasons – is as old as courts themselves. It reflects a concern about self-interested judging that is at odds with the impartial, independent judiciary envisioned by our Constitution and, to that end, serves two general purposes.
- Louis J. Virelli III | ACS - American Constitution SocietySupreme Court Recusal. Louis J. Virelli III October 28, 2020 . Expert Forum Blog.
- Glossip v. Oklahoma | ACSThe Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Glossip v.Oklahoma, a death penalty case involving a state’s admitted suppression of a key witness’s history of treatment for mental illness and prosecutors’ failure to correct that witness’s false testimony.
- Promoting Fair and Impartial Courts through Recusal Reformdecision on recusal is not made by the challenged judge himself or herself. This is an issue of fundamental importance: one of the most criticized features of recusal practice is the fact that in many states, the judge subject to a recusal request has the unreviewable last word on whether to step aside from a case.
- Legal Scholars Warn Senate of Kavanaugh’s Recusal IssuesThe lawyers explain that Judge Kavanaugh has expressed views that would require his recusal from “a very broad slice of the Supreme Court’s docket during his lifetime tenure as a justice. That would leave the court evenly split in far too many cases, for years on end, if he were to recuse himself as required—or deeply damaged in the ...
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