Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., wrote an op-ed for the New York Times explaining how to force Justices Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito to recuse themselves from Jan. 6 cases.
Top Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin argued in the New York Times this week that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito could, in theory, be forced to step down from cases related to the January 6 Capitol riots. In a guest essay for the New York Times on Wednesday, Raskin detailed ways Thomas and Alito could be forced to recuse themselves from the upcoming Trump v. United States and Fischer v. United States, both involving former President Trump's role during the Capitol protests.
Raskin called out Chief Justice John Roberts’ past assertion that 'judges are like umpires,' calling for him to prove his point. 'But professional baseball would never allow an umpire to continue to officiate the World Series after learning that the pennant of one of the two teams competing was flying in the front yard of the umpire’s home.
Raskin previously called for Thomas to recuse himself in December, pointing to his wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, and her past support of Trump's claims of 2020 election fraud. 'I think anybody looking at this in any kind of dispassionate, reasonable way would say if your wife was involved in the big lie in claiming that Donald Trump had actually won the presidential election and been agitating for that and participating in the events leading up to Jan.
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