Gorsuch Recuses from Environmental Case With Argument Looming

US Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch told parties he’ll recuse from an environmental case, despite participating in the dispute since it was filed with the court in March.

The conservative justice didn’t explain his belated decision in a letter Wednesday to sit out Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, which will be argued Dec. 10. But he did say the decision was “consistent with the Code of Conduct for Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.”

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary’s subcommittee on the courts, and other members of ...