Judiciary’s Hilarious Take on Recusal
Life is indeed stranger than fiction and, if you’re looking for laughs in the increasingly humorless politics of Washington, the Senate is a good place to look.
The chuckler of the day is a Washington Post article titled Democrats Query Nominee On Ethics. They are, of course, talking about conversations with Sam Alito, the current nominee for Supreme Court Justice, with whom nobody seems able to find much seriously wrong. But they’re trying, bless their sticky little fingers.
Teddy Kennedy, the lion of Hyannis Port and the Judiciary Committee’s most senior member, asked Alito why he hadn’t recused himself from opinions relating to Vanguard and Smith Barney. Alito had funds invested with Vanguard at the time of his judgement and Smith Barney was his broker on the later case. The decisions didn’t really affect the judge's investment portfolio and he blamed the appeal court’s computer, which was supposed to remind him. Fair enough.
But the part that amuses me is that Teddy regularly fee…