Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have said that Samuel Alito must be recused from future cases regarding legislation regulating the Court after his recent interview with The Wall Street Journal constituted a violation of the Court’s ethics code.
of Alito repeatedly telling the Judiciary Committee during his confirmation that it’s improper for a justice to comment in public on matters that may come before the Court.
“He has also said ‘I can’t opine on’ such things and ‘I wouldn’t express an opinion on’ such things because I ‘have to go through the whole judicial process of decision-making.’ That was then, I guess,” Whitehouse wrote. “Now he’s inviting an appeal challenging our legislation, and telegraphing how he would rule in that case. Every other justice knows that’s wrong.
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