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In some ways weve only scratched the surface of your decade and the more than 570 opinions youve written. but its clear to me from what ive reviewed and from just this sample that as we also heard from colleagues, from conservative lawyers, from judges who wrote to the committee, that you are judicious and evenhanded, that you have a demonstrated record of excellence, that you adjudicate based on the facts and the law and not as an advocate activist or partisan. and i encourage my colleagues who...

Investigated. clare, i got two quick ones for you. i want to ask you about clarence thomas, his wife, the pressure democrats are putting on him to recuse himself. i want to get real. you know clarence thomas and you know republicans, you know how they operate. is clarence thomas feeling an ounce of pressure, he does not legally have to go anywhere? >> nope, he is not feeling any pressure. and john roberts is having some sleepless nights. their poll numbers are dipping. americans faith in the cou...

Their spouses is a party to a lawsuit in which they have to recuse themselves. but i think this could be a call for higher levels of rutgers on the supreme court, perhaps the same rules we see at other levels of the court, where recuse is necessary if members of the public could fairly questioned their impartiality. and i think here, there has to be some question, especially since we know that clarence thomas was the only one to descend from the opinion in the case for donald trump challenged th...

I think he should have clearly recused himself about the case involving the subpoenas, the january 6 committee subpoena of meadows records. but he either knew that includes that in box of materials that they were subpoenaing were texts that would implicate his wife. or he should have known. the wonderful -- you know, this is not a dont ask, dont tell situation. if you should have known, sor yu reasonably believe in that box of materials being subpoenaed included texts that could implicate your w...

Where recuse is necessary if members of the public could fairly questioned their impartiality. and i think here, there has to be some question, especially since we know that clarence thomas was the only one to descend from the opinion in the case for donald trump challenged the national archives production of documents to the january six committee. he was the only one of the nine that felt that donald trump should prevail. did he know that clarence thomas would be there and thats why he wanted t...

This is wildly inappropriate. but at worst, i think it is calling into question the impartiality of clarence thomas, her husband, on the supreme court. as you, said donald trump was going to go to the supreme court to stop the january six committee from having to turn over documents. he was talking about having the supreme court intervene to determine the outcome of the election. so knowing that hes saying these things, shes continuing to reach out to the chief of suffered on a trump. of course,...

Legally have to go anywhere? >> nope, he is not feeling any pressure. and john roberts is having some sleepless nights. their poll numbers are dipping. americans faith in the court is slipping. keep in mind there is a law in the books, stephanies says very clearly, let me read the exact language, its impartiality can be reasonably questioned if a justice is posed to recuse itself. you put any 12 people in a jury box and see if they think if impartiality will be in question right now. we have to ...

Of improprieties. this has the appearance of impropriety. it speaks to his lack of impartiality, and the court absolutely needs a code of conduct to speak to these issues because we cannot rely on the justices at this point, particularly clarence thomas, to police himself. i clerked for a federal judge and i know how important and critical it is for judges and justices to insulate themselves from the appearance of impropriety, making sure theyre not taking part in event, not taking part in anyth...

A judge stood he recuse himself, not only if theres an actual conflict of interest, like a financial stake for a family member, or their spouse as an actual party to the lawsuit, but if theres an appearance of a conflict of interest. that is if they impartiality could be question by member of the public. if thats the case, then judges at the district court level in the circuit court level are supposed to recuse themselves. they dont have that at the supreme court. and i think theres been a lot o...

Checking, which would pair up journalists from different publications with opposing views to fact check together. the idea would be that it would try to get rid of the inherent bias. what do you make of that? thats certainly an interesting proposition. at full fact we have a lot of processes in place to try and ensure impartiality and exactly, make sure that there arent the kind of biases that youre referring to, so that starts right from our recruitment process, we have strict rules on impartia...