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The Case for Alito Recusing

Plus: No, There Isn’t a Ukraine ‘Enemies List’

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Jun 13, 2024
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PHILIP ALLEN LACOVARA: The Case for Alito’s Recusal

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito in 2019. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Dear Justice Alito,

The drip-drip-drip of reports about the roles that you and your wife are playing in partisan controversies has risen to a torrent. You must reconsider your decision not to recuse yourself from pending and future cases that come before the Supreme Court involving former President Donald Trump or participants in the events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Compliance with governing law and public respect for the integrity of the Court’s process require this result.

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CATHY YOUNG: No, There Isn’t a Ukraine ‘Enemies List’

THE LATEST OUTRAGE CYCLE ON THE RIGHT is over a so-called “enemies list” of anti-Ukraine Americans that has come to light in the last few days. David Sacks, the tech entrepreneur turned Ukraine-war doomsayer, hinted that the list—on which he appears—might be an actual kill list. Another listee, Compact magazine cofounder Sohrab Ahmari, called the list “ominous” and “creepy,” a manifestation of “Ukraine McCarthyism.” A Fox News headline says that a “Biden-linked Ukraine group” is behind the list. Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio and Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, two of the many Republican politicians on the list, have written to Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanding answers about possible connections between the list’s creators and the State Department.

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