Quote (Vastet @ 18 Jul 2023 18:45)
The problem here is that a full third of the supreme court was appointed by Trump and that's the highest court so you cannot expect judges who were appointed by Trump to recuse when the final hill is packed with judges appointed by Trump.
Thats a very good point, the republicans did not play fair when it came to appointing SCJ's. as usual, you try to play fair and the Republicans take advantage. But I digress...
In THIS particular case there is a panel of judges that use a 'random' system to give out the cases to the federal judges in this particular district. This means that there are several judges that could easily replace Aileen Cannon. Clearly she should not be involved given the conflict of interest (in my and many peoples opinion, including Glenn Kershner a former DOJ Prosecutor) and she has the ability to simply say ya i recuse myself because the people may not find this fair and therefore I should recuse myself as it is written in the federal judges code.
She can easily recuse herself, it means nothing for her to stay away from it. But she doesnt seem to think there is conflict of interest and she seemingly thinks she shouldnt recuse herself which is ENOUGH proof that she is out of touch with reality and the demands of the American people.
THey could just as easily appoint the Bush appointed judge, and it wouldn't be a conflict of interest. Literally and judge appointed by any other president would avoid the questioning by the American people.
This post was edited by Crunkt on Jul 18 2023 04:53pm