As Scalia pointed out in his opinion refusing to recuse himself, plenty of Justices in the past were known to socialize with Presidents or other top officials.
"The whole story, from the photos of Chief Justice Maynard through Justice Benjamin refusing to recuse himself, is offensive to the most basic notions of due process," Mr. Sample said.
In 2015, Justice Prosser refused to recuse himself from a case in which the state supreme court sat in judgment over the John Doe investigation, despite the fact that the investigation focused on precisely the same network of lobbying groups and donors that had helped him hang onto his seat.
He refused to recuse himself, too, in 2010 in another case involving Monsanto and GMO seeds and joined in the decision favoring Monsanto's position.
(Scalia refused to recuse himself in the case, and the supreme court remanded it to a lower court, which threw the lawsuit out entirely. The documents were leaked to the media in 2007).
A federal judge has refused to recuse himself from a case in which he ruled in favor of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee in bankruptcy proceedings, and against creditors, who include hundreds of sexual abuse victims.
He refused to recuse himself despite the $3 million that Mr. Blankenship spent to get him elected.
Over 1,000 people attended the funerals, including the judge who presided over the case, who then refused to recuse himself.
In October, 2003, Comey was asked, at his confirmation hearing to become the Deputy Attorney General, how he might handle a politically charged case implicating an Attorney General who refused to recuse himself.
Chinembiri Bhunu, the judge in the politically charged trial of Roy Bennett, a senator and former commercial farmer, on Monday refused to recuse himself, though Mr. Bennett's lawyers accused him of bias.
