THE ART OF RECUSALS | The Real Fraud Of Voting In America
May 19, 2017
WHAT A TIME IT WAS, IT WAS
|Tony Mauro with The National Law Journal reports that long, long ago, our Supreme Court justices would sometimes explain why they recused themselves from cases. So why don’t they anymore? Mauro writes, “Modern-day justices have offered an array of reasons for not divulging the reasons for recusal. Some say it would take too much time, while others suggest it could spoil relationships between justices who cherish their individuality by essentially running ‘nine separate law offices.’ One justice’s explanation for recusal might pressure other justices into recusing in similar situations, some justices have said privately.”
ED BOARD OVERTURE
|The Editorial Board of The Washington Post thinks that real fraud isn’t taking place at the voting booths, it’s in the commission PRESIDENT TRUMP set up to investigate the supposed voter fraud. The Board notes that the commission will likely “create further pretexts for GOP-dominated state legislatures determined to throw up barriers to minority turnout with laws such as North Carolina’s.” The North Carolina law was struck down as unconstitutional because it aimed to “target African Americans with almost surgical precision.” SCOTUS left that decision in place earlier this week, but as WaPo points out, the high court’s “conservative majority may not block such future legislation.”
POLL DU JOUR – THE COLOR OF LOVE
|It’s been 50 years since the Supreme Court recognized a right to intermarriage, and according to new data released by the Pew Research Center, one in six American newlyweds married someone of a different race or ethnicity in 2015. Among all married Americans, about 10 percent, or 11 million people, had a spouse of a different race or ethnicity.