On March 29, 2022, Professor James Sample was quoted in the Slate Magazine article “Ginni Thomas’ Absurd Sexism Defenders.”
Excerpt
In his comprehensive 2013 law review article on recusal, Professor James Sample offers insights into the current moment with his look at Supreme Court recusal controversies past. Sample notes that when, in 2004, Justice Antonin Scalia declined to recuse himself from a case involving then Vice President Dick Cheney, after the two had gone on a hunting trip together, at least Scalia wrote at length to explain his reasoning. And as Sample notes, the justice’s defensive rhetoric shifted “the frame of focus away from whether his impartiality might reasonably be questioned by the American people to his perception of the unreasonableness of the American people.” File the shabby “sexist” critique in that drawer.
Read the full story on the Slate Magazine website.
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