recuse

• “He also said that some of the explanations that he and his supporters gave for his failure to recuse from the Vanguard case in 2002 -- such as a “computer glitch” or the fact that his promise to the Committee was somehow time-limited -- were not in fact the true reasons that he failed to recuse himself from the 2002 case.”

  The Courts

• “VELEZ-MITCHELL: And that ` s Judge Stan Strickland, smacking down the defense motion to recuse, which is a fancy way of saying get rid of the prosecution team.”

  CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2009

• “While judges are required to "recuse" themselves from presiding over a trial where there is a conflict-of-interest -- let's say the judge owns a significant amount of stock in a company owned by the defendant -- there is no parallel definition of conflict of interest when it comes to lawmakers or regulators.”

  The Huffington Post: Jane White: Where Are the Tea Party Traitors When It Comes to Financial Reform and the Revolving Door?

• “While judges are required to "recuse" themselves from presiding over a trial where there is a conflict-of-interest -- let's say the judge owns a significant amount of stock in a company owned by the defendant--there is no parallel definition of conflict of interest when it comes to lawmakers or regulators.”

  The Huffington Post: Jane White: Where Are the Tea Party Traitors When It Comes to Financial Reform and the Revolving Door?

• “Just because he's black and President does not mean he must "recuse" himself from commenting on obvious reality: the racist placards and signs of the right wing protesters are not only a call to action for white supremacists and Klansmen, they are a clarion call to those being attacked.”

  Clarence B. Jones: Head in the Sand?

• “You know, we were talking about this Baez motion to recuse which is a fancy way of saying, Jayne, that he wants the entire prosecution team thrown off the case.”

  CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2009

• “B. 's conjectural emendation, "recuse" for "secure," but that, unless my memory and Ayscough are both deceptive, the word "recuse" is nowhere to be found in Shakspeare; nor, as far as I know, in any dramatist of the age.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc

• “Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, asked if she would recuse herself from future gun control cases because she ruled in the past that the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment does not apply to state gun control laws.”

  NRA opposes Sotomayor nomination to Supreme Court

• “The court is current set to hear that case again, and Sotomayor would likely have to recuse herself from the rehearing.”

  Sotomayor — for, or against?

• “Having direct Corporate sponsors may end up forcing the elected official to recuse him/herself from voting in favor of his/her sponsor.”

  Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 22, 2010

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