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Texas judge who bought Tesla stock won’t recuse himself from X v. Media Matters (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They were fans of Montesquieu, but they also thought the VP should be the runner up in the election and that self interest would prevent one group from attaining too much power

In this case for example: the judge would want to avoid being labeled as partial because he would ruin his family name and lose his profession

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's not just that. People fought duels over their honor in the past. We don't have duels anymore, so we shouldn't rely on a judge to recuse themselves.

It is a founding concept of European law that no one should be a judge in their own case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemo_iudex_in_causa_sua

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

Duelling wouldn’t apply to this case

For obvious reasons a judge wouldn’t duel parties in a civil (or criminal) case but also the judge would be ruining his own honour