To the surprise of absolutely no one, the left is now clamoring for newly confirmed Justice Amy Coney Barrett to recuse herself from the Pennsylvania election law case.  On Tuesday, the Board of Elections for Luzerne County, Pennsylvania filed a motion demanding Barrett's recusal, alleging that her '"impartiality might reasonably be questioned' ... given the circumstances of her nomination and confirmation."  What circumstances?  That the "nomination and confirmation of a Supreme Court justice [came] this close to a presidential election."    Also predictable are threats from the left that if Barrett doesn't recuse herself, she will be impeached. To paraphrase Homer Simpson's sage observation about donuts, "Impeachments.  Is there anything they can't do?" We non-lawyers can leave it to the constitutional scholars, or better still, Barrett herself, to figure out if she...(Read Full Post)