It’s an election year, and the Supreme Court can’t stay out of politics
This week, it was a dust-up between Chief Justice John Roberts and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over the lawmaker’s comments about a recent court decision.Last week, it was President Donald Trump blustering that Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are hopelessly biased. And it was Justice Clarence Thomas in the headlines after media reports that his wife was quietly advising the White House about disloyal staffers.
“It’s a sad reflection of the politicization of the Supreme Court,” said Philip Lacovara, a former deputy solicitor general and lead counsel to the Watergate special prosecutor. But at the rate Trump and some of his critics are calling for justices to recuse themselves, there would be only a couple of justices left to hear these cases.For starters, Roberts faced questions about whether he’d need to recuse himself from matters involving the president because of his unique role as presiding officer during the Senate impeachment trial. Some Republicans warned that he had to be careful about stepping into the mix, given his upcoming role in several Trump-related cases.
The liberal group Take Back the Court countered by pressing for Thomas, a George H.W. Bush appointee, to drop off any cases involving the president because of his wife’s close ties to the Trump White House.
But Scalia rejected calls from environmentalists to sit out a 2004 case because of a hunting trip he’d taken with Vice President Dick Cheney, explaining in a detailed
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