Melvin R. Laird, Secretary of Defense v. Arlo Tatum

How courts have described this case

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• holding a judge's \duty to sit where not disqualified . . . is equally as strong as the duty to not sit where disqualified\
• holding a judge's \duty to sit where not disqualified . . . is equally as strong as the duty to not sit where disqualified\
• holding a judge's \duty to sit where not disqualified . . . is equally as strong as the duty to not sit where disqualified\ (emphases added)
• noting that “a federal judge has a duty to sit where not disqualified which is equally as strong as the duty to not sit where disqualified”
• noting past Supreme Court justices who sat on cases involving legislation they drafted or issues they decided as political figures
• indicating that judges have “a duty to sit where not disqualified”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).