April 2022 Bar Bulletin
By Catherine W. Smith
What might or should cause the recusal or disqualification of an appellate court judge has been in the news again recently because of the political activities of Ginni Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife. Last month’s Bar Bulletin (March 2022) contains an interesting article, “Keeping Up With the Thomases,” on the topic, from our esteemed editor, Christopher Young. But this is not a new issue, of course. Over a decade ago, I chaired a task force of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers that addressed disqualification of appellate judges, when the issue was being brought to the forefront of the...