Whether judges must address judicial partiality claims

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. | Whether judges in Washington State must specifically address the judicial partiality claims actually asserted by the parties against judicial officers and court staff in order to adjudicate whether such claims are properly asserted pursuant to that Due Process of law standard mandated by the Fourteenth Amendment? 2. | Whether Washington State judges and judicial officers are required to inform themselves about their financial circumstances and disclose those circumstances to the parties when ruling on disqualification challenges premised on the Fourteenth Amendment? 3. | Whether Washington State judges and judicial officers must pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment apply an objective standard to judicial neutrality challenges that requires recusal from a case when the likelihood of bias on the part of the judge “is too high to be constitutionally tolerable?”