Senate Democrats had called on conservative justice to step aside over his close links with attorney in case
The US supreme court justice Samuel Alito on Friday rejected a push by Senate Democrats to have him recuse from a tax case that involves an attorney who interviewed him for a newspaper article and helped him “air his personal grievances”.
Alito, in a statement attached to a routine order issued by the court in the case, Moore v United States, said, “There is no valid reason for my recusal in this case.” Individual justices make recusal decisions for themselves.
The Senate judiciary committee chairman, Dick Durbin, and nine other Democrats on the panel on 3 August sent a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts asking him to ensure Alito recuses in the case involving plaintiffs Charles and Kathleen Moore.
