Justices Tell Judges Not to Rule on Major Backers

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/us/politics/09scotus.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&sq=recuse&st=cse&scp=1

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Subject: re: Justices Tell Judges Not to Rule on Major Backers
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:
   It is heartening to learn that chief Justice John Roberts would not
have joined the majority opinion in Bush v. Gore. His argument that
“the standard the majority articulates — ‘probability of bias’ — fails
to provide clear, workable guidance for future cases” leaves no room
for the 2000 decision that famously "established no precedent".
Barry Levine