the former alabama supreme court judge, sue bell cobb listen to how she described it. >> i try to remember when i was asked to be reduced. in 30 years, i could be wrong here. i don't even remember a recusal motion. what did it mean? did it mean they trusted me to make the decision? i trust and pray that's what they meant. all too often meant that they didn't want to offend the judge >>> judge cobb asks an interesting question. nobody ever asked her to recruits herself in instances like this. that's is a bit of an ethical problem. judges don't take themselves out of these things, because they say there's no causal relationship. lawyers don't ask because of arguments like the one you are making. >> the supreme court in the tower case held in the west virginia situation there was a significant likelihood that the appearance of impropriety occurred because of the money donated, it wasn't raised by the judge, but a group raised. but the supreme court set a tender for judges to recruits themselves. with recruitsal if we look at the supreme court, there are allegations of conflict of interest fro