Health care case puts spotlight on Supreme Court recusals 
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Tags: Clarence Thomas, Elena Kagan, health care, judicial disqualification, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, recusals, Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to decide whether to take up the constitutional challenge to the nation’s health care law, but already some critics are stepping up calls for two justices to recuse themselves from considering the case.
Legal ethics experts say the case highlights a major problem at the Supreme Court: a lack of clear judicial recusal rules.
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