“He had to recuse. He didn’t. I’d want to know why.”

Richard Painter, a professor at the University of Minnesota who also served as ethics counsel for the George W. Bush White House, regarding Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ failure to recuse himself from cases regarding the 2020 presidential election despite his wife’s involvements in attempting to get the results overturned. Many legal experts agree that Thomas must recuse himself from future cases regarding the 2020 election, though there is no way to force his recusal. (NPR — March 30, 2022)