Should Clarence Thomas recuse on Jan.6 cases?


by CNN

CNN— Critics say the justice should not judge Trump’s election-subversion case, because his wife supported overturning the election, attended Trump’s Jan6 rally.

MSNBC—Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to weigh Trump’s immunity claim despite recusal calls over Jan. 6. Many things about Donald Trump’s Supreme Court immunity appeal are incredible (in a bad way). There’s the alleged scheme that prompted the election subversion charges at issue. There’s the former president’s equally subversive bid to avoid those charges. There’s the high court’s leisurely scheduling of the appeal, which could function as its own form of immunity by preventing a pre-election trial. The list goes on. But when the justices take the bench Thursday morning for their last scheduled...

LifeSiteNews—Trump campaign says he will pardon Jan. 6 prisoners on 'case-by-case basis' if re-elected. Trump ‘will pardon January 6th protestors who are wrongfully imprisoned by Crooked Joe Biden’s Justice Department,’ with pardons decided on a ‘case-by-case basis,’ Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

TheBlaze—Overreaching prosecution tactics face high court scrutiny in Jan. 6 cases. Because I’ve followed the progress of so many of the January 6 defendants’ trials, I was fully aware of the implications — and the government’s misapplication — of the much-discussed Section 1512(c)(2) felony that has been applied to more than 350 cases. But it wasn’t until I heard the nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court grill Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar that I became genuinely frightened by the overreach of the Justice Department’s never-before-used application of this law. ...