[Newspoetry] Justice Recused

[DL Emerick]

LINDA GREENHOUSE | Justices' Conflicts Halt Apartheid Appeal 
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/washington/13scotus.html
The case calls attention to the occasionally uncomfortable consequences of
justices' ownership of individual stocks.

ROBERT PARRY | McCain and the "Unitary Executive"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051308E.shtml
Robert Parry writes for The Consortium News: "If John McCain wins the
presidency and gets to appoint one or more US Supreme Court justices
Americas 220-year experiment as a democratic Republic living under the
principle that no man is above the law may come to an end. To put the matter
differently, if a President McCain replaces one of the moderate justices
with another Samuel Alito as McCain has vowed to do then Justice Department
lawyer John Yoos extreme vision of an all-powerful Executive could well
become the new law of the land."   

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So, when shall the Justices who have a former client that was the United
States Government, like John Roberts and Sam Alito, properly recuse
themselves in cases involving that client?

Or, what about all those Justices who take stock in an idea, or in America,
recuse themselves from deciding cases involving ideas or America?

Or, when will Justices be required to take an "oath of poverty", like
Franciscans do, in entering a guaranteed job for life (federal judge)?

Justice is lame in America, hobbled by the greed of the judges.