Why are judges not MADE to recuse themselves when there's obviously a Conflict?

[Skylar]

There certainly should not be an OPTION to recuse.

The fox is asked politely not to target the henhouse?!

House GOP chair demands Trump hush-money judge recuse himself after latest gag order, claims 'judicial bias'

House GOP Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., accused Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan of "clear judicial bias" and insisted he recuse himself from former President Trump's hush-money case.

www.foxnews.com

from site (emphasis added)

"Democrat Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan, who donated to Biden’s campaign and another anti-Trump cause in 2020, has a clear judicial bias against President Trump," Stefanik, the House Republican Conference chair, said late Tuesday. "Merchan’s adult daughter is a Democrat political operative who has financially benefited from her father’s unprecedented trial of President Trump."

"When Trump raised this additional evidence of Judge Merchan’s bias, Merchan retaliated by expanding his unconstitutional gag order on Trump," Stefanik added. "The law and common sense absolutely requires Judge Merchan’s recusal from President Trump’s trial. We cannot allow a biased, far-left activist judge to strip the American people of our constitutional right to select [our] own leaders."

Because a $15 dollar donation to Biden 3 years before the trial doesn't raise any reasonable question to the judges impartiality.

There will be no successful appeal on any legal grounds to the judge's impartiality based on a $15 donation. Its just a pseudo-legal talking for Magites to ape, with little to any understanding of the actual standards of recusal.

 

[WorldWatcher]

We all know Representatives and Senators are whores. Judges are supposed to be objective and above corruption. They are not only supposed to not be corrupt, but they are supposed to avoid even the faint appearance of corruption or favoritism.

Justice's Thomas and Alito agree with this.

(Well not for themselves but for others.)

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