How Appealing links to filings and reports quoting from the Daily Journal of California:
Federal prosecutors have written to all 50 judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, asking them to consider recusing themselves from hearing accused pornographer Ira Isaacs’ appeal. The rare move is further fallout from the disclosure in June that Chief Judge Alex Kozinski’s Web site contained sexually explicit images . . .
The realities are that the judges have to look in the mirror when they are confronted with the prospect of recusal. They must ask, ‘Can we decide a case and expect public confidence when it involves our chief judge and when it involves a case on the front pages of the newspapers?’ . . .
