Supreme Court’s Alito Rejects Democratic Calls for Recusal
- Interviews with lawyer were ‘nothing out of the ordinary’
- Alito statement is latest sign of brewing discord over court
Samuel Alito
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US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito rejected Democratic demands that he recuse from a pending tax case after he gave two interviews to one of the participating lawyers for use in a Wall Street Journal article.
In a unusual four-page statement released by the court, the conservative said that “there was nothing out of the ordinary about the interviews in question.”