[taxcontrol]

That is an odd request. Any speculation as to ... why?

[The Pack Knight]

It seems like a perfectly obvious request to me. Sullivan's involvement in the case as a litigant implicates the mandatory recusal and disqualification provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 455. A judge has an affirmative duty to recuse himself sua sponte (on his own motion) if he believes those grounds exist. While Flynn's lawyers did not raise this issue in their brief, I think at least one of the judges on the Court of Appeals must think that the Court of Appeals also has a duty to consider sua sponte whether a trial judge should be compelled to recuse himself.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

To me it means that the court wants to hear Powell’s opinion as to when the Judge’s conduct has reached the point where he should be bounced off the case. I do not think they would be asking that unless some of them had an idea that the Judge was at that line, or had crossed it.

Which was not the play the Judge thought he’d bought a ticket for.

[BeauBo]

“Any speculation as to ... why?”

My speculation is that the Left leaning judges are looking for a technicality, to do what most helps the Democrats, despite the obvious injustice of it.