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Gorsuch urged to recuse himself from supreme court case over ties to oil baron
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2024
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But if the recuses himself then the oil baron would have spent all his money for nothing. Surely, this can't happen.
That would violate the oil baron's civil rights!
The Oil Baron isn't involved in the case before the court.
Whooooosh
Nope, no whooosh. I get the argument I'm simply rejecting it. Philip Anschutz isn't part of this case and the argument being made here is that in order to screw him that we should also cheer some poor fishermen getting screwed.
That's not justice.
You know that those cases are often fabricated from the start and it's possible for a billionaire to bring a case in front of the Supreme Court without legally being involved in one? Not saying it's the case here but him not being directly involved doesn't mean his not behind the case.
Let’s say the issue before the court is whether the coca-cola company is liable for health issues in some vulnerable group they targeted with advertising for decades. One of the justices on the court is best friends with the CEO of PepsiCo and gets many valuable gifts from them.
Ruling in Coke’s favor wouldn’t put any money in the pockets of the Justice or the Pepsi CEO, but it would still absolutely be a conflict of interest.
Ruling against Coke could also look like it was affected by a conflict of interest because it hurts Pepsi’s main competitor.
There’s no way to win, it looks bad either way. That’s why transparency and recusal are the rule.
Well unless you’re on the Supreme Court. Then I guess the transparency and recusal are just optimistic requests.