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nichomachus

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6. Scalia was the poster boy for conflicts of interests

Reply to Octafish (Original post)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 02:17 PM

Feb 2016

He had no problem with accepting freebies from people with business before the court. It's not wonder they're keeping the names of the other "guests" secret. It would be very revealing.

In fact, the guy who invited him didn't know him and said he invited him at someone else's suggestion. My guess is that there was someone there who wanted to plant a bug in Scalia's ear about a pending or upcoming case.

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