Explaining her recusal last week, Justice Elena Kagan gave court watchers hope that they would no longer have to engage in guesswork and other means to figure out why a member of the U.S. Supreme Court declined to participate in a case.

Her pro-transparency move also seemed to be influenced by a new ethics statement signed by the justices amid recent scrutiny of the court’s ethical conduct.

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