Will Clarence Thomas have to recuse himself from insurrection cases?

[yellowcanine]

Given his wife' s involvement?

[CurtEastPoint]

1. In an ethical world with ethical people, yes. With him... no. Fucker.

[Me.]

2. I Would Certainly Think So

and given his statements of grievance against Biden in a documentary about THomas himself, I wonder how he can be involved in any cases involving the Biden admin

[NCDem47]

3. I though the same thing.

I mean...HELLO?? She gave money for people to get on 80 buses to come and riot/terrorize.

[LAS14]

14. Geee... Ya know... we as Dems need to be sure of our facts.

I propose we spend another 10 or 15 posts on determining whether it was 80 buses. Or 70, like someone else posted. Does anyone have resources for this important distinction.

:sarcasm Sorry, don't know how to make that little sarcasm thingey.

Also, I wasn't ridiculing your post. Just making a crack.

[Girard442]

4. SCOTUS justices decide for themselves when to recuse.

In other words, no.

[catrose]

9. Sadly, as we learned with the duck judge.

[Dream Girl]

5. If more comes out about her involvement, I'm hoping that he'll be forced to step down

[Cirque du So-What]

6. Excellent question

I’m ill-equipped to provide a bona fire answer, but at first blush it seems like his reactionary wife’s materiel support for insurrectionists disqualified him.

[NCjack]

7. No. He doesn't have the guts to defy Ginny.

[Bluethroughu]

8. He should resign.

[Bluethroughu]

28. Agree!

[Mike 03]

10. Haha. Can you believe it? We've got a Supreme Court Justice who

has a conflict of interest over cases involving overthrowing our government?

Unbelievable times, my dearest DU friends.

[StarfishSaver]

17. IKR?

[marie999]

11. If he had anything to do with it

or if he even knew about it in advance, the House should impeach him.

[lagomorph777]

20. +1000 Highly likely he was involved in bussing in the terrorists.

[flibbitygiblets]

32. This is actually where we are

[snowybirdie]

12. Hopefully

he'll have resigned long before any reach the High Court

[Iliyah]

13. He didn't when it came to Obamacare . . .

while his wife advocated for it's shut down so why would he recuse himself now.

[StarfishSaver]

15. No. He should, but he doesn't have to

Unlike other federal judges, Supreme Court justices are the sole arbiters of whether they should or shouldn't recuse from a case. There's no requirement that he recuse if he doesn't want to.

If, however, it is obvious that he is so conflicted that ruling on a case constitutes a high crime or misdemeanor, that could be grounds for impeachment and removal.

[malaise]

16. Did he sign off on her funding 80 buses?

If he did resignation not recusal is required.

[lagomorph777]

21. Impeachment is required.

[malaise]

22. THIS

[yellowcanine]

30. I haven't seen a reliable source on the buses. Have you?

I was talking about her supportive tweet.

[malaise]

31. No - just posts here

[yellowcanine]

34. I think we need to be careful we don't repeat rumors.

[leftyladyfrommo]

18. She has been involved in far right stuff all along.

He hasn't recused himself yet.

[lagomorph777]

19. Clarence Thomas needs to be investigated and probably impeached.

There's no way he didn't know that his wife was bussing in an insurrectionist army.

[Mr. Ected]

23. Perhaps if Ginny is arrested and tried for her participation, and her appeal ended up in the SC

He would have no choice but to recuse. Or if her participation was one of conspiracy to commit a crime and another conspirator's case found its way to the SC, there would certainly be a conflict of interest.

[Montauk6]

24. Well, they let him slide on Bush v Gore, IIRC

[themaguffin]

27. He doesn't "have" to, no. Should he? Absolutely. He also should resign.

[Hav]

33. I read that this bus story was a misrepresentation

It surely spread as fast as fake news from the right for the same reasons.
Either way, the answer to the OP is no.