.SpeakerPelosi responds to calls for Justice Clarence Thomas to resign from Supreme Court
Tuesday he believes Justice Thomas should recuse himself from cases related to the events of Jan. 6 and also called for ethics reforms.
"I do think he should recuse himself," Schumer told reporters on Tuesday during a news conference."The information we know right now raises serious questions about how close Justice Thomas and his wife were to the planning and execution of the insurrection." Pelosi said she's interested in holding a congressional hearing on enacting Supreme Court ethics soon. Democrats' sweeping voting reform legislation known as H.R.1 included creating a code of ethics for the Supreme Court. Though that legislation died in the Senate, Pelosi talked of reviving that part of the bill in the wake of Thomas' texts.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talks to reporters during her weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill, Sept. 30, 2021."They're making judgments about the air we breathe and everything else. And we don't even know what their ethical standard is." Under federal statute, judges shall disqualify themselves in any proceeding in which their impartiality might reasonably be questioned. Critics have slammed Thomas' decision to remain on cases related to the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 riot.Clarence Thomas, 73, is the longest-serving justice on the court. He was nominated by President George H.W. Bush in 1999 to succeed Thurgood Marshall, the nation's first Black justice.
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