How to Use recuse in a Sentence

recuse

verb
  • On July 8, Creuzot filed a motion to recuse Givens from the case.
    Dallas News, 20 July 2022
  • Green denied a motion from Rosenzweig to recuse from the case.
    Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Alito did not disclose the trip and did not recuse himself from the case.
    David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Also Friday, Smith’s team pushed back against the Trump team request to have Chutkan recuse herself from the case.
    Eric Tucker, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Frankfurter did not recuse himself when the saboteurs’ case reached the court weeks later.
    John Fabian Witt, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
  • One of the new justices, K.J. Wall, recused himself from the cases, so six justices will decide them.
    John Hanna, ajc, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Justice Thomas’ refusal to recuse himself is thumbing his nose at the law.
    Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Judge Chutkan has refused to recuse herself, but a hearing on the gag order will be held on Monday.
    Robert Draper, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Jackie Lacey agreed to recuse her office from handling the case due to a conflict of interest.
    Kevin Rectorstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Kari Lake wants Katie Hobbs to recuse herself from election duties.
    Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Justices make their own calls about when to recuse, and no other judge is authorized to replace them.
    Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Justice Patrick DeWine, the governor's eldest son, recused himself from the case.
    Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Yet none of those justices has ever recused on that basis, or even been formally asked to do so.
    Derek Clinger, The Conversation, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The justices heard two cases on the same issue because Jackson is recused in one case, from New Jersey.
    Mark Sherman, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Jackie Calmes: Clarence Thomas has a chance to do the right thing by recusing himself on Trump’s immunity claim.
    Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Grant was assigned the case after all the Macomb County Circuit judges recused themselves.
    Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Pate earlier this month recused herself from the case and Circuit Judge Alan Mann will preside over the second trial.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Smith, who is on the review panel, will recuse himself while the Garden Theatre is being discussed.
    Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Five state Supreme Court justices, four appointed by Democrats, are weighing the case after two others on the bench recused themselves.
    Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The request is a long shot given the high threshold for recusal and because the decision on whether to recuse belongs to Chutkan, who is unlikely to see cause to step aside from the case.
    Eric Tucker and Alanna Durkin Richer, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • This was after the first judge to hear his plea for release last year began crying when Hubbard’s friend testified and then recused herself from the case.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
  • In a brief court filing Monday, Givens declined to recuse herself and requested a hearing on the matter.
    Krista Torralva, Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Nevertheless, the victims’ lawyers asked that Watson recuse himself and that a new judge be assigned.
    Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 4 May 2022
  • Roth said Justice Thomas, at the very least, should offer an explanation of his decision not to recuse.
    Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Bernhardt pledged to recuse himself from matters related to his former clients for one year.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
  • Parties in lower courts can also file a motion asking for a certain judge to recuse themselves.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Our governor’s son sits on the state Supreme Court and won’t recuse himself from cases involving his father.
    WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
  • That has increased calls for Justice Thomas to recuse himself from any cases involving the Jan. 6 attack.
    John Fritze, USA TODAY, 30 June 2022
  • The fifth member of the board recused himself because his spouse was involved in Glossip’s prosecution.
    Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 2 May 2023
  • The fifth member had recused himself because his wife was a prosecutor in one of Glossip’s two state trials.
    Brynn Gingras, CNN, 5 May 2023

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