WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice
Stephen Breyer waded into a recent debate over ethics on the nation's highest court Saturday, defending the way he and his colleagues decide whether to remove themselves from considering a case.
In recent months lawmakers and interest groups have called for two of the Supreme Court's nine justices to remove themselves from the coming arguments over
President Barack Obama's health care law for ethical reasons.
Republicans want Justice Elena Kagan to recuse herself from the case because of her work as solicitor general in the Obama administration.
Democrats, meanwhile, say Justice Clarence Thomas should not consider the case because of his wife's work with groups that opposed the health care overhaul. ...
