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Barrett: ‘I don’t think of myself as a swing justice’
Justice Barrett cited threats to her family as the reason for keeping recusal explanations private amid rising hostility towards federal judges, with bomb and pizza delivery threats reported.
- On Thursday, Justice Amy Coney Barrett recoiled at the suggestion she is a swing justice, saying she has `learned to tune it out` and `I don't think of myself as a swing justice`.
- Justice Barrett said recusals are prompted by financial conflict disclosures, lower-court involvement, and nuanced cases involving friends, family or `deeply held convictions`, which she called `a tricky standard`.
- Law enforcement received a bomb threat against Barrett's sister, Charleston, South Carolina, and members of her family got two unsolicited pizza deliveries, while other federal judges also faced pizza orders.
- In April 2023 the ethics principles said justices may provide recusal summaries, but the formal ethics code adopted seven months later omits public recusal guidance; Kagan and Democratic appointees typically explain recusals.
- Barrett has at times sided with Chief Justice John Roberts, who has joined liberals in recent years, and said it is `very frustrating` when people blame `the Trump relationship` rather than legal reasoning.
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'Tricky': Conservative Supreme Court justice makes eyebrow-raising remark on recusals
Speaking at a book signing in Washington, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett admitted she's scared to reveal why she's recusing herself, Politico's Josh Gerstein wrote on Thursday. While some justices have refused to recuse themselves when there is a possible conflict, Coney Barrett didn't recuse herself until May of this year. At an event hosted by SCOTUS Blog in Washington, Coney Barrett explained, “There are costs,” to explaining her rec…
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