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Watchdog groups urge Senate to investigate Samuel Alito over oil stock conflicts

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Groups say supreme court justice, who owns stock in oil companies, may be violating ethics codes by participating in certain cases
The Guardian Dharna Noor
Excerpt:

In a Thursday letter, a coalition of watchdog organizations called on the Senate judiciary committee to investigate Alito, the sole supreme court justice with holdings in energy companies.

“His irregular recusal practice in oil and gas industry-related cases is undermining public confidence in the impartiality of the Court,” says the letter, signed by green groups including the League of Conservation Voters and the Center for Biological Diversity, as well as progressive accountability watchdogs the Revolving Door Project and True North Research.

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