Democrats are increasingly calling for conservative justices to recuse themselves from major cases with the potential to hurt their political goals.
Fifty House Democrats called on Justice Clarence Thomas Wednesday to recuse from an upcoming case that could rein in the authority of executive agencies, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, after ProPublica published a story detailing his presence at a 2018 event put on by the Koch network, or Stand Together, founded by libertarian billionaire Charles Koch. Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin likewise called for Justice Samuel Alito to recuse from a major tax case that could undermine the legal foundation for a wealth tax, Moore v. United States, after a lawyer on the case interviewed Alito for the Wall Street Journal in August.