Some of the US Supreme Court justices seemed open to setting constitutional standards for judicial recusal in a case that started with a contract dispute between two West Virginia coal miners that was argued on Tuesday. Four justices - Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter and John Paul Stevens - felt their way around how to set benchmarks for state judges faced with a sufficient "probability of bias" to be removed from cases. They appeared to be joined by the court's swing vote, Justice Anthony Kennedy, even as two other justices cast such gauges as unworkable.
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机译：在上周二争论的两个西弗吉尼亚煤矿工人之间的合同纠纷开始的案件中，美国最高法院的一些法官似乎愿意为司法撤销制定宪法标准。斯蒂芬·布雷耶（Stephen Breyer），露丝·巴德·金斯堡（Ruth Bader Ginsburg），戴维·苏特（David Souter）和约翰·保罗·史蒂文斯（John Paul Stevens）等四位法官在如何为面临充分“偏见可能性”的州法官设定基准方面感到困惑。似乎有两名法院大法官安东尼·肯尼迪（Anthony Kennedy）参加了投票表决，即使另外两名法官认为这样的衡量标准也不可行。
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