“Justices on Trump list to sit out recount case”

Detroit News:

Two Michigan Supreme Court Justices have disqualified themselves from considering a presidential recount appeal by Green Party candidate Jill Stein because Republican President-elect Donald Trump has named them among his possible picks for the United States Supreme Court.

Chief Justice Bob Young and Justice Joan Larsen, who have each appeared on short lists Trump released during the campaign, granted the Stein campaign request on Thursday….

Larsen, 47, said she did not take the decision to disqualify herself lightly but conceded that her appearance on a Trump campaign list of 21 possible Supreme Court nominees creates a conflict.

“I did not seek inclusion on the list, had no notice of my inclusion before its publication, and have had not contact with the president-elect, or his campaign, regarding the vacancy,” Larsen wrote. “Yet the president-elect and his surrogates have repeatedly affirmed his intention to select someone from the list to fill the vacancy.”

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