Kavanaugh Urged to Sit Out Facebook Case Due to Friendship

A coalition of progressive groups is calling on Justice Brett Kavanaugh to recuse himself from a case involving Facebook Inc. scheduled for next term due to his ties to the company’s policy chief, Joel Kaplan.

“At a time when Facebook’s growing influence in Washington and the Roberts Court’s pro-corporate bias are already under scrutiny, Kavanaugh failing to recuse himself would undermine any semblance of equal justice being done in this case,” said a statement released by the groups, which include Demand Justice.

Kaplan’s presence at Kavanaugh’s contentious confirmation hearing, at which he heatedly denied Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegations, ...