American foreign policy is like my ass right now

Does anyone think Ginsburg should recuse herself?

Graduating from a school and having a spouse currently employed there are two different things IMO.

ongoing and continuing financial nexus,

Finally. Something that resembles a principle.

I think that principle was pretty clear from the beginning,

Reasons for disqualification are laid out in the United States Code (Title 28, Section 455), but the justices themselves are their own final arbiters. According to the statute, justices, judges, and magistrates should recuse themselves if they have a personal bias concerning anyone in the case, or independent knowledge of the facts in dispute; if they worked on the case as a private or government lawyer; or if they or close relatives have a financial interest in the case.

Does anyone think Ginsburg should recuse herself? and why hasn't she?

mac - Can you explain to me why everything the Left disagrees with "reeks of McCarthyism?" You should remember that, as I have written in this blog, although McCarthy's tactics were wrong, his basic claim was truthful. Their were spies, communists and useful idoits in the US government, Hollywood and the media. The quote was provided as a reminder of who these guys are. They live here, but they cheer terrorist acts elsewhere. While that may be their right, it doesn't mean that I have to be happy with them when they do it

Do you agree or disagree that she falls into the criteria above? I think she would.

The press has reported several times that Justice Scalia confided in others that he would like to become the next Chief Justice and that he understood that that could happen only during a Republican presidency. During the time Bush v. Gore was being litigated, Justice Scalia's son John worked at the law firm that represented the Bush campaign in the Florida courts, and Justice Scalia's son Eugene was a partner at the law firm that represented the Bush campaign in the Supreme Court, although the press reported that profits from the Bush v. Gore litigation were deducted by the firm from Eugene Scalia's income.16

On December 4, 2000-while Bush v. Gore was pending before the Supreme Court-Virginia Lamb Thomas, Justice Thomas' wife, sent an email to 194 Congressional aides, suggesting that if they wanted assistance in being considered for positions in the next administration, they could forward their resumes to one of Mrs. Thomas' coworkers at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that collaborates with the Republican Party.17 In addition, according to the Wall Street Journal, during her previous employment with a Republican leader in House of Representatives, Mrs. Thomas "spearheaded a leadership effort to gather embarrassing information about the Clinton-Gore administration."18 Mrs. Thomas told reporters in December 2000 that she and Justice Thomas never19 or "rarely"20 discuss their work lives with each other. Justice Thomas was nominated to the Supreme Court by George W. Bush's father, whose administration then fought hard to get him confirmed in one of the most divisive Supreme Court appointment controversies in history.

Having a family member employed by a party to a suit doesn't necessarily indicate a financial interest in the case. For example:

As for the trial, I still believe them guilty, and would like to see a re-trial.

The case was built on hundreds of pages of transcripts of wiretapped phone calls and faxes, records of money moving through accounts, documents seized from the defendants' homes and offices, and their own words on video. At times, the participants appeared to speak glowingly of the Palestinian "martyrs" who carried out suicide attacks.

macromaniac, step away from the ppj, put it down and step away.

She has no bias on behalf of her husband's employer?

You, on the other hand, are trying to do exactly that. Suppress my free speech by making a false claim that it is McCarthyism.

the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation