“Involvement is involvement.”Lagoa’s stance could be an explosive issue should Trump nominate her to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. Lagoa and Luck were no longer on the state Supreme Court when it issued its advisory opinion in January siding with DeSantis. He pointed to numerous examples of Supreme Court justices taking up cases involving identical legal issues to those they previously ruled on as circuit court judges, but in distinct cases. “This appeal plainly is not the same proceeding as the one that took place in the Florida Supreme Court, even if the two matters could somehow be said to be part of a single controversy,” Cooper wrote. “I would think that members of the Senate Judiciary Committee would be very troubled by her commitment that she would recuse herself from cases involving the Florida Supreme Court, which she ended up not doing,” Simon said.

Source: Washington Post September 25, 2020 00:56 UTC