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  • Trump v. Hawaii with Trump-nominated Neil Gorsuch (not recusing).

  • In United States v. Nixon however "Justice William Rehnquist recused himself as he had previously served in the Nixon administration as an Assistant Attorney General". Rehnquist was also Nixon-nominated to the Supreme Court, but he didn't include in his recusal the latter reason. The same Court also had Nixon-nominated justices Harry Blackmun and Lewis F. Powell Jr. on board, neither of whom recused, and even the Chief Justice of that court, Warren Burger, had been nominated by Nixon himself.

I think the fact that there is a Senate confirmation for Supreme Justices makes the nomination remote enough not to be a reason for recusal. I'm not sure anyone has argued it explicitly along these lines though.