An untimely recusal from Justice Elena Kagan has placed the U.S. Supreme Court’s ethics rules—or the lack of them—under fire again.
Kagan’s chambers recently discovered a conflict in an immigration case, Jennings v. Rodriguez, that’s been pending for more than a year and a half, the Supreme Court’s clerk’s office said in a Nov. 10 letter.
The case was reargued in October after the shorthanded court was presumably split 4-4 following the first argument. Kagan’s recusal suggests that the reargument wasn’t necessary, as a seven-member court could have resolved the case last term.
“The ordinary conflict check conducted in Justice ...
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