Neither will. Perhaps they should but they won’t.
I wonder how many maggots on Capitol Hill have spouses who are going to make millions BECAUSE of the passage of Barry’s “Healthcare” law. This crap with Justice Thomas is just a bunch of communist bovine scatology.
Kagan has to recuse. She was directly involved and openly biased. Thomas does not have to recuse, the attacks on him are a smoke screen with no no basis done by democrats to cover for their real problem with their Obamacare pushing judge.
Thomas? No Way! He has absolutely no reason to recuse himself. He wasn’t part of drafting the bill, nor was he on the WH staff writing the defense for it, as was Mzzz. Kagan.
The GOP has to impeach if she won’t recuse.
The design of the Supreme Court is not pretty. I haven’t thought about what the answer really is, but it’s lacking. But perhaps there is no better answer; perhaps that ugly solution is the best. It’s unwise to make changes when one really does not know what one is doing.
But it’s almost like perhaps during their terms, Supreme Court Justices should be sequestered, have no access to news, whether via TV, internet, print, radio - anything.
They have always been too aware of the politics of the day.
This is a good design in some ways, like much of the government design, that results in an imperfect mechanism but allows for continual correction. They don’t decide cases in a vaccuum, they are aware of the societal context of their decisions.
It’s just frustrating that so many opinions are politically motivated and simply a rationalization of the desired results.
Thomas's wife is not in government. Kagan was directly involved in the legislation
Elena Kagan is on the Supreme Court bench for one reason only: as a cheerleader for the Obama agenda, most of which will be tested by court challenges for many years to come. The “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” is only the first of many to be presented, but by no means the last.
She does not have judicial temperment, nor sufficient practical experience in Constitutional law, to rule competently on ANY issue concerning the interpretation of existing law, precedents, and ramifications of rulings relating to the constitutional basis for any of the Obama agenda.
With no clue as to the meaning of most of the Bill of Rights, or the spirit behind which these provisions came to be included in the Constitution, she is unfit for the office to which she is appointed.
Harriet Miers would have been a far better choice to be placed on the Supreme Court, but she was threatened with a much more rudely applied anal exam than Kagan has ever been subjected to.
The left pulls the “moral equivalence” card yet again.
I am really, really angry that the Republicans refuse to speak out on this. Clarence Thomas basically has been left to defend himself, ever since he was first appointed, even though he is one of the soundest judges who has ever served on SCOTUS.
And what is Kagan’s qualification? That she is an extreme leftist who wrecked the program at Harvard Law School?
Seems obvious Kagan should excuse herself...she’s already done so on several other instances. I don’t know about Thomas...that looks like a grey area to me. I can kinda see their point about Thomas but I’m not so sure its a strong one.
Why should Justice Thomas recuse himself?
Because the left doesn’t like him?
Kagan actually advocated for the new law. It was her job. She was paid to lobby for the law. She favors it.
She is beyond biased and needs to recuse herself
Thomas is none of those things. He has no relationship with the case.
Liberals are insane.
Thomas shouldn’t have to. His “involvement” is via his wife.
So, what is the action/solution when Kagan does’t recuse herself? Can the Cheif Justice force her to recuse? Is there something we as the “People” can do against obvious judicial bias? I honestly don’t know if we have any recourse...
Congressman John Tierney (D-MA) should not be involved in any decision on budget since his wife was convicted for tax evasion. And perhaps Charles Rangel (D-NY) too.
Well...IF Thomas has to recuse himself because of his WIFE...then the ONE should have to RECUSE himself of MANY things based on HIS wifey...
Kagan was head of the staff preparing the defense of the Healthcare bill. That means to my point of view that she had input to the bill as she of course wouldn’t want to allow anything that she couldn’t defend be in the bill.
She should recuse herself as she had to have had input into the creation of it.
But underlying the calls on both sides is their belief that the conservative Thomas is a sure vote to strike down President Barack Obama’s health care law and that the liberal Kagan is certain to uphold the main domestic achievement of the man who appointed her.
Oh, really? Not actual law that prevents a judge from presiding over a case she worked intimately for?
I continue to despise the MSM.
The Left should quit playing tit for tat. The only reason they want Justice Thomas off is they perceive him as their biggest obstacle. He does not need to be off the case.
Kagan is another matter. She clearly has a conflict of interest.
Kagan was directly involved with supporting Obamacare. She mislead or lied to the lawmakers who approved her selection as a member of the Supreme Court.
Mr. Thomas has a spouse who works. He was NOT directly involved with the Obamacare issue. The Democrats are loud and boisterous over nothing, maybe to distract from the Kagan issue. She should resign in disgrace.