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Editorial: Given the activism of Virginia Thomas, Justice Clarence Thomas must not refuse to recuse

Which is worse? A Supreme Court justice’s wife working actively to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election or her husband’s refusal to recuse himself from cases related to her cause?

Answer: They’re both bad.

Both reek of what Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor aptly called the “stench” of partisanship in public perceptions that the Constitution and its reading are “just political acts.”

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