 A new report from ProPublica uncovered patterns where they say judges chose not to recuse themselves from cases, despite at least appearances of conflicts of interest. When federal judge Wendy Vitter presided over a case where jurors ruled against a group of paramedics suing the local government for unpaid overtime in 2019, it was unlikely that many in this Louisiana courthouse knew her husband, former U.S. Senator David Vitter, was getting paid to lobby on behalf of an agency called