Recent controversies involving Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. are not the first time the justices have faced calls to recuse themselves from cases.
that the revelation raised the appearance of impropriety and cast doubt on whether Scalia could be impartial. On Feb. 23, 2004, the Sierra Club, the environmental organization that sued for access to the energy task force’s records, asked Scalia to recuse himself from the case.
Scalia also wrote in the draft that descriptions from news outlets of Wallace Carline, the host of the Louisiana hunting trip, as “an energy company official,” “oil industrialist,” “oil company executive,” “oilman” and “energy industry executive” were “false.” In the final version of the recusal statement, Scalia said the descriptors were “misleading.”The draft also referenced frequent invitations to fly with administration officials.
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