Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs wouldn’t answer questions Monday about a criminal investigation that will probe ties between her administration and a state contractor that donated $400,000 to benefit Hobbs and Democrats in recent years. “In light of the fact that there is an investigation, I’m not going to comment except to say I look forward […]
May 29—Albuquerque City Council President Dan Lewis will recuse himself from future votes involving the Air Quality Control Board, following a settlement agreement with the New Mexico State Ethics Commission. Commission staff investigated an allegation that Lewis’ role as the executive director of the Asphalt Pavement Association of New Mexico was in conflict with legislation […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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. Alito faced calls from Democrats to recuse from two cases involving former President Donald Trump and Jan. 6 defendants […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito rejected on Wednesday requests by Democratic lawmakers to recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 election, including Donald Trump’s bid for immunity from prosecution on federal criminal charges for trying to reverse his defeat. Some lawmakers called for him to step aside from the pending […]
WASHINGTON — A growing number of Democratic lawmakers called for Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from cases related to Jan. 6, 2021, and demanded new ethics rules for the Supreme Court after revelations that flags carried by rioters at the Capitol were flown outside his homes. With the Supreme Court just weeks away from […]
Amidst the calls of someone in power, somewhere, to do something after the latest flag report on Justice Samuel Alito, there’s one modest measure the justice himself can and should take: Explain his non-recusal from Jan. 6–related cases in an official written statement. That wouldn’t preclude any other remedial or investigative measures — I’ve previously […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats intensified calls on Thursday for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to step aside in two cases – one on Donald Trump‘s bid for immunity from prosecution and the other on a charge involving the Capitol attack – after a media report that another provocative flag flew outside a home of […]
WASHINGTON ― More than 40 House Democrats are calling on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from cases involving the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection over the display of an upside-down U.S. flag at the conservative justice’s home shortly after the attack on Congress occurred. In a letter addressed to Alito and obtained by […]
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Friday that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito should recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 election after a new report said an upside-down American flag flew outside his home in the days after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and before President Joe […]
The Supreme Court has two major pending decisions related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and Donald Trump: the former president’s immunity claim in his federal election interference case and an appeal over an obstruction charge used against Trump and other Jan. 6 defendants. At both hearings, Justice Samuel Alito suggested he favored the arguments by […]
Apr. 18—A Hartselle man accused of poisoning his wife with lead from his Decatur chiropractic office asked the judge presiding over his criminal case — the same judge presiding over his divorce — to recuse himself amid allegations that the wife’s divorce attorney shared information with the judge about the criminal case, according to court […]
Lawyers for Donald Trump have again asked the judge presiding over his upcoming criminal trial to recuse himself from the former president’s case, this time citing an “unacceptable appearance of impropriety.” In a court filing made public Friday, Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove contended Judge Juan Merchan has a conflict of interest because […]