Sentences with phrase «previously recused»
However, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has previously recused himself from any involvement in the Russia investigation, so the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will be able to dismiss the special counsel.
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An important caveat is that a new justice will generally recuse from any case in which that person previously played a role either as an attorney in a firm or office that was handling the case at the time the justice was working there, or as a lower court judge.
Because Chief Justice Roberts previously reviewed this case while on the D.C. Circuit Court, he has recused himself.
2d (W.D. Wisc. 2007): The district court enjoined enforcement of the provision of Wisconsin's Code of Judicial Conduct which required judges to recuse themselves if they had, while a judge or candidate for judicial office, previously made statements that «appear [ed] to commit» the judge with respect to an issue in a proceeding.