Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) suggested Sunday that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from a future ruling on whether former President Trump can be disqualified from the 2024 ballot under the 14th Amendment.
Raskin said he thinks “anybody looking at this in any kind of dispassionate, reasonable way would say if your wife was involved in the big lie and claiming that Donald Trump actually won the presidential election and [had] been agitating for that and participating in the events leading up to Jan. 6, that you shouldn’t be participating.”
“He should recuse himself,” Raskin added in response to a direct question from CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.”
That sounds just a tad more resolute than a “suggestion.”
It cannot be more than a suggestion, because short of impeachment, the SCOTUS justices are the only people who can decide whether to recuse themselves.