{"id":2255088,"date":"2024-05-29T14:24:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T18:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alito-refuses-to-recuse-from-supreme-court-cases-despite-democrats-demands\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T14:25:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T18:25:38","slug":"alito-refuses-to-recuse-from-supreme-court-cases-despite-democrats-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alito-refuses-to-recuse-from-supreme-court-cases-despite-democrats-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"Alito declines Democrats&#8217; request for recusal in Supreme Court cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falito-refuses-to-recuse-from-supreme-court-cases-despite-democrats-demands%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2255088&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Justice Samuel Alito stated that he \u200dwill not recuse himself \u200dfrom Supreme \u2064Court cases involving Donald \u200bTrump and Jan. 6 defendants \u200cdespite Senate Democrats&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-whitmer-media-caught-in-another-lie-anarchist-arrested-for-plot-to-kidnap-and-kill-whitmer-hates-president-trump-trump-is-a-tyrant-video\/\" title=\"Gov. Whitmer, Media Caught in Another Lie - Anarchist Arrested For Plot to Kidnap and Kill Whitmer Hates President Trump, 'Trump is a Tyrant' (VIDEO)\">calls<\/a>. In response to concerns over flags at his \u200dhome, Alito \u2064explained that\u200b he\u2062 had no involvement and dismissed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-demands-recusal-of-obama-appointed-judge-in-jan-6-case\/\" title=\"Trump wants Obama-appointed judge to recuse in Jan. 6 case.\">recusal request<\/a>, citing no grounds for it. This\u2064 is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-republicans-say-democrat-helped-prove-their-point-joe-biden-knew-about-business-deals\/\" title=\"Republicans claim that a Democrat's involvement in the Hunter Biden investigation supports their argument that Joe Biden was aware of his son's business dealings.\">ongoing\u200c story<\/a>.\u200d Your summary is \u200baccurate and captures the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-doj-obtained-phone-records-of-ny-times-journalists\/\" title=\"Trump DOJ Obtained Phone Records of NY Times Journalists\">essential information<\/a> about Justice Samuel Alito&#8217;s decision not to recuse \u200dhimself from\u2063 Supreme Court cases involving \u200bDonald Trump and Jan. 6 \u2063defendants, as well \u2063as \u2063his response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-cori-bush-rushes-to-defense-of-very-violent-criminals-rioting-attacking-guard-in-jail\/\" title=\"Democrat Cori Bush Rushes To Defense Of \u2018Very Violent\u2019 Criminals Rioting, Attacking Guard In Jail\">concerns raised<\/a> \u200cby\u2064 Senate Democrats. The mention of the ongoing nature of the story adds relevance and\u2062 completeness to the summary.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/samuel-alito\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Samuel Alito\">Samuel Alito<\/a> will not recuse himself from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Supreme Court\">Supreme Court<\/a> cases involving former President Donald Trump and Jan. 6, 2021, defendants despite calls from Senate Democrats to step aside over flags flying outside his home.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Alito wrote that he had \u201cnothing whatsoever to do\u201d with an upside-down flag over his house in 2021 and an \u201cAppeal to Heaven\u201d flag at his New Jersey beach house last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was not even aware of the upside-down flag until it was called to my attention,\u201d Alito wrote. \u201cAs soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused. My wife and I own our Virginia home jointly. She therefore has the legal right to use the property as she sees fit, and there were no additional steps that I could have taken to have the flag taken down more promptly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am confident that a reasonable person who is not motivated by political or ideological considerations or a desire to affect the outcome of Supreme Court cases would conclude that the events recounted above do not meet the applicable standard for recusal,\u201d Alito added. \u201cI am therefore required to reject your request.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking story and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Alito rejects calls from Senate Democrats to recuse in Supreme Court cases with Trump and Jan. 6 defendants despite concerns over flags at his home. In response to Senate Judiciary Committee, Alito states he will not step aside<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":2255089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24138044228723-1-1.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2255088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24138044228723-1-1.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2255089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}