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In declining to step aside from two high-profile Supreme Court cases, Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday provided a rare window on the opaque process by which justices decide to step aside from cases.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch will not participate in an environmental case to be argued next week involving a proposed railway in Utah, the court said on Wednesday, a move that followed ...
In his statement, Raskin said, "Justice Alito has made his political leanings and support for the president-elect clear, whether it be his display of flags in apparent support of the January 6th ...
On rare occasions, a party to a case will ask a justice to recuse. In one notable example, the Sierra Club asked Justice Antonin Scalia to recuse from a 2004 case about an energy task force convened by then-Vice President Dick Cheney after reports that Scalia and Cheney, old friends, went duck-hunting together.
The term "recuse" originates from the Latin word "recusare," meaning "to demur," or "object" reflecting the fundamental principle of rejecting participation when impartiality is in doubt. [3] The word "recuse" traces its origins to the Anglo-French term "recuser," meaning "to refuse," which itself comes from the Middle French and Latin "recusare."
A U.S. judge on Tuesday declined to recuse herself from presiding over the criminal case against a man who is facing charges for trying to assassinate former president and Republican presidential ...
Polls have estimated that between 15 million and 26 million people have participated at some point in the demonstrations in the United States, making them the largest protests in United States history. [10] [11] [12] It was also estimated that between May 26 and August 22, around 93% of protests were "peaceful and nondestructive".
Incident Location(s) Start Duration Number of hostages Kidnappings during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war: Gaza envelope, Israel: 7 October 2023: Ongoing 250+ [1] Nduga hostage crisis