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Gorsuch urged to recuse himself from supreme court case over ties to oil baron
(www.theguardian.com)
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Personally I doubt it. While they don’t necessarily need every vote in the decision, recusal would reinforce the precedent that they have done anything inappropriate - not the tack they have been taking.
You gotta think like a Republican...
Not recusing now means people talk about the issue. And maybe something is done to fix it.
This just stalls so status quo can continue.
Like how Nixon created the EPA, it wasn't because he cared about the environment. It was the opposite. Congress was going to create an agency with the teeth to enforce regulations. So Nixon made the EPA and made sure it couldn't hold corporations accountable.
This recursal is just for optics so if people complain, they can deny there's even an issue.
This is a bad take. There were already several federal agencies with some teeth, but their powers were hyper focused. The EPA was a consolidation of those agencies.
When the EPA was established and ratified by congress, it was super popular. It passed the house 401-21 and the senate 89-11. Being environmentally conscious was popular across the aisle. There were actually right wing eco terrorists if you can believe it (Ted Kaczynski). Under nixon, ford, and carter, the EPA saw massive expansions of power.
The reason the EPA became a bugbear of the right is Ronald Reagan. EPA was big government at it's finest and reagan hated that. Reagan was the super sellout to corporate America and Clinton wasn't a whole lot better with his "the era of big government is over".