Justice Kagan Recuses Herself From Case Involving Arizona Immigration Law

cnsnews.com ^ | 12-12-11 | MARK SHERMAN

[Lurking Libertarian]

Actually, I’ve heard and read that if she’d do the right thing, she’d need to recuse herself from at least 25% of the cases they’d be likely to hear. But that’s only IF she’d do the right thing. We know she won’t - she’s on BHO’s team, after all.

She did recuse from about 20% of the cases in her first term, since she had represented the Government before the Supreme Court in the certiorari filings in those cases. There will be a lot fewer recusals as time goes on.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Can a Justice later recuse from a case, after the decision has been made to hear the case? I would expect that to be true, hence the growing pressure on Thomas and Kagan regarding ObamaKare

Theoretically possible, but very rare.

[Lurking Libertarian]

The pig sotomayer needs to recuse her racist butt from this case as well.

On what grounds? Sotomayor was born in New York, and is of Puerto Rican descent. New Yorkers and Puerto Ricans are citizens.

[Scotsman will be Free]

She’s a racist.