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Exercise in futility. A joke. A waste of everyone's time.

IMHO they may be criminals. Bribery. Perjury. That is the Justice Department's bailiwick.

I still can't get over the fact that nobody asked in oral argument in the immunity cases why Thomas and Alito (and maybe Roberts) were participating since they should be disqualified after the November 13, 2023 ethics order. https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/11/the-new-scotus-code-of-conduct/

28 U.S. Code § 455 - Disqualification of justice, judge, or magistrate judge

(a)Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.

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As Sheldon Whitehouse has pointed out from the beginning, there is no mechanism by which to enforce anything in the code. What I can't understand is why this story about Alito and the upside down flag just now 'breaking news"?

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Roberts just issued the order. It takes a motion by a party with a case before the court. The party has to file an affidavit that there is bias. The standard is not actual bias, rather the appearance of bias.

Never up never in.

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