State Supreme Court justices can’t kick each other off cases for alleged bias, the court ruled Tuesday in a bitterly divided decision along now-familiar 4-3 lines.
The decision prompted a fresh round of tough words for one another, with the dissenters saying Justice Patience Roggensack had forsaken a “bedrock principle of law” to supply the deciding vote in the matter. They said Roggensack should not have participated in deciding whether she was ethically constrained from staying on the case.