Dick Durbin and Richard Blumenthal called on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from Jan. 6 and 2020 election cases.
called for Alito’s recusal and the adoption of a code of ethics for justices amid the fallout from the Supreme Court’s ongoing controversies.
Another Judiciary Committee member, Sen. Richard Blumenthal , called for Alito’s recusal on Wednesday. Blumenthal appeared on MSNBC’son Wednesday to speak on the matter. Blumenthal compared Alito’s display of the flag to House Speaker Mike Johnson , who has the flag displayed outside his office in Congress.
During an oral argument over a Jan. 6 case this term, Alito asked Inspector General Elizabeth Prelogar whether what happened on Jan. 6 — when rioters obstructed the couting of the 2020 electoral college vote — was equivalent to protesters interrupting Supreme Court hearings “for five minutes.
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