Justice Clarence Thomas Should Not Bow out of Trump Disqualification Cases: Law Professor

Published on January 5, 2024

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should not have to recuse himself from any future court rulings on whether former President Donald Trump should be disqualified from this year’s election, a legal expert said. Law professor Jonathan Turley made the statement on his website on Jan. 2 as he was responding to Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who demanded the justice’s removal from such cases during a recent CNN interview. Mr. Raskin, a former law professor who served as an impeachment manager for President Trump’s second impeachment, told CNN that the former chief executive “is clearly disqualified from being on the ballot because he participated in insurrection.”...

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