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In an op-ed for The New York Times, Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin suggests forcing Supreme Court Justices Alito and Thomas off of cases related to Jan. 6.

Raskin says Alito and Thomas could be forced by Biden’s DOJ to recuse themselves from the upcoming Trump v. United States and Fischer v. United States — two cases involving Trump and the Capitol riots.

“Of course, Justices Alito and Thomas could choose to recuse themselves — wouldn’t that be nice? But begging them to do the right thing misses a far more effective course of action,” Raskin wrote.

Raskin wants President Biden’s DOJ and AG Merrick Garland to petition the seven other Supreme Court justices to demand recusal.

“This recusal statute, if triggered, is not a friendly suggestion. It is Congress’s command, binding on the justices, just as the due process clause is. The Supreme Court cannot disregard this law just because it directly affects one or two of its justices. Ignoring it would trespass on the constitutional separation of powers because the justices would essentially be saying that they have the power to override a congressional command,” he wrote.

“But even if no member of the court raises the issue of recusal, the urgent need to deal with it persists. Once it is raised, the court would almost surely have to find that the due process clause and Section 455 compel Justices Alito and Thomas to recuse themselves. To arrive at that substantive conclusion, the justices need only read their court’s own recusal decisions,” he continued.

Alito told lawmakers this week he would not recuse himself from any Jan. 6 hearings.

From Fox News:

Democrats and mainstream media members have been demanding Thomas and Alito recuse themselves from cases involving Trump by linking them to the Jan. 6 riots. Alito has been the subject of a media onslaught in recent weeks concerning a dispute with liberal neighbors in 2021 and flags he says his wife put up at that time, including an upside-down American one.

Raskin previously called for Thomas to recuse himself in December, pointing to his wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, and her past support of Trump’s claims of 2020 election fraud.

Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley says Raskin’s push for recusal shows how “detached from reality the attacks on these justices have become.”

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