Activist Group Asks Two SCOTUS Justices To Recuse On LGBT Rights Cases Over Photo With Hate Group Leader

Newsweek reports:

The director of a judicial activist group has written U.S. Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito a letter demanding they recuse themselves from upcoming Supreme Court cases concerning LGBT rights, after the pair posed for pictures with the president of anti-gay group National Organization for Marriage (NOM).

The liberal group Take Back the Court advocates adding additional justices to the Supreme Court. Their executive director Aaron Belkin wrote the letter on Tuesday, and it was shared to their website and social media on Wednesday.

“The credibility and impartiality of the current Supreme Court is in tatters,” writes Belkin in the letter. “Posing for photographs with the president of an advocacy organization that has filed briefs in matters pending before the court makes a mockery of Chief Justice Roberts’ assertion that a judge’s role is to impartially call balls and strikes.”

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— Brian S. Brown (@briansbrown) October 29, 2019