Amy Coney Barrett: Ethics & Recusals
Amy Coney Barrett’s record doesn’t fit the pattern of the justices covered so far on this site. She has recused herself multiple times for clearly identifiable personal and professional conflicts, including once alongside four other justices, both liberal and conservative, over the same publishing conflict. Her more significant ethics question is about timing and optics rather than concealment — and about her own defense of a Supreme Court practice that keeps recusal reasoning almost entirely private. ...