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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito cannot participate in any cases involving the Treasury Department because his son Phil works as an attorney there. Justice Amy Coney Barrett has two adopted children from Haiti, so she should be disqualified from hearing an ongoing case involving Temporary Protected Status for Haitians. Chief Justice John Roberts must disqualify himself from cases argued by attorneys from the firms where his wife, Jane, a legal recruiter, has made placements.
Each of these assertions is wrong as a matter of common sense — and of law. Nevertheless, critics are inventing or overstating scandals, often against the justices whose decisions they oppose, as the public becomes increasingly frustrated with the results of many high-profile cases. But spotlighting tenuous or unfounded allegations makes meaningful reform that much harder to achieve. If everything’s an outrage, then nothing is.
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