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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUS Uncut: Scalia’s Resort Trip Was Gifted By ‘Friend’ Whose Case Had Been Before the Supreme Court
Scalias Resort Trip Was Gifted By a Friend Who Had Business Before the Supreme Court
Its now been revealed that the luxury hunting ranch vacation Antonin Scalia was on when he died was a gift from someone who Scalia indirectly helped with a recent Supreme Court decision.
In late 2015, the Supreme Court declined to hear an age discrimination suit (Hinga, James V. Mic Group, LLC) against a subsidiary of the manufacturing company J.B. Poindexter, which is owned by John B. Poindexter. Poindexter also owns the 30,000-acre Cibolo Creek Ranch in Shafter, Texas, where Scalia was vacationing when he died last weekend. According to the Washington Post, Scalia didnt pay for his flight to the ranch, or for his room at the luxury ranch. His food and beverages were also free. Poindexter maintains that Scalia wasnt given any preferential treatment, as the 36 people staying at the ranch that weekend were all staying for free.
However, the Post also reports that lingering questions remain about who else was staying at the ranch, and whether or not Poindexter or any of the ranchs guests were trying to curry favor with the late Justice:
The nature of Poindexters relationship with Scalia remained unclear Tuesday, one of several lingering questions about his visit. It was not known whether Scalia had paid for his own ticket to fly to the ranch or if someone else picked up the tab, just as it was not immediately clear if Scalia had visited before.
It is also still not known who else was at the Texas ranch for the weekend, and unless that is revealed, there could be concerns about who could have tried to raise an issue around Scalia, said Stephen Gillers, who teaches legal and judicial ethics at the New York University School of Law. He compared it to unease that arises when judges and officials from major companies are invited to seminars or educational events that bring them together for periods of time
During Justice Scalias tenure on the nations highest court, an astonishing number of decisions favored corporate plaintiffs and defendants, prompting the New York Times to call it the most corporate-friendly court since the World War II era....
http://usuncut.com/news/scalia-hunting-trip-was-a-gift/
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US Uncut: Scalia’s Resort Trip Was Gifted By ‘Friend’ Whose Case Had Been Before the Supreme Court (Original Post)
amborin
Feb 2016
OP
Corrupt, swill eating hypocrite all the way to the end. Fuck him forever.
Feeling the Bern
Feb 2016
#8
tabasco
(22,974 posts)1. Hog-slopping at the trough all the way to the grave
A fitting end to a corrupt judge.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)2. Corruption Is As Corruption Does
eom
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)3. If was Grifted nt
amborin
(16,631 posts)4. that's great!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)5. Wow. I am not surprised, tho.
The culture of corruption has permeated every aspect of Governance, it seems.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)6. so, did Pointdexter fly in all 36 guests?
and who are those people?
Bugenhagen
(151 posts)9. Scalia, 33 prostitutes, and 2 guys pushing wheelbarrows of cocaine.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)11. SCHEDULING Bugenhagen FOR ASS KICKING
*EGREGIOUS VISUAL*
Bugenhagen
(151 posts)12. Spank me!
Skittles
(153,169 posts)13. GETTING MY STILETTOS
YES INDEED
KT2000
(20,584 posts)7. judges do this now
lobbyists invite them to resorts to be "educated." It has been going on for years.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)8. Corrupt, swill eating hypocrite all the way to the end. Fuck him forever.
micraphone
(334 posts)10. "Shafter"
How appropriate...
Gothmog
(145,335 posts)14. Scalia was very unethical
catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)15. Well, regarding this quote...
"Poindexter maintains that Scalia wasnt given any preferential treatment, as the 36 people staying at the ranch that weekend were all staying for free."
I maintain if that is Poindexter's stance then he has to start passing out free tickets to the other 350 million fellow citizens who haven't been to his pajama party yet.
maxrandb
(15,334 posts)16. Maybe the Supreme Court will require campaign donars
to identify themselves.....