Scalia Mustn't Sit in Judgment of His Hunting Buddy: Newsday

[jbfam4]

Scalia Mustn't Sit in Judgment of His Hunting Buddy

January 26, 2004
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpsca263641977jan26,0,5682027.story?coll=ny-editorials-headlines


Antonin Scalia and Dick Cheney are hunting buddies. They went to Louisiana together a few weeks ago to shoot ducks. Ordinarily there would be nothing noteworthy about that. But Vice President Cheney is fighting in court to keep the records of his energy policy task force secret. And Scalia is a justice of the Supreme Court, which has agreed to hear the case.


Both Scalia's reputation and the court's credibility are on the line. He should recuse himself from the case. Such cozy fraternization between justice and litigant raises serious questions about his impartiality.

Two lower courts have ordered Cheney to turn over to the Sierra Club and Judicial Watch documents detailing who participated with the task force that crafted the White House's energy policy. Cheney appealed, and three weeks before the duck outing, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.

And who paid for the private jet that whisked Scalia to Louisiana? The Times said it was the owner of an oil services company. Scalia has been hopelessly compromised.

[barbaraann]

1. Bu, oh, what will Clarence Thomas do without his "controller?"

The idiot won't even know what chair to sit in.

[wryter2000]

2. He'll borrow Scalia's homework

Scalia recused himself from the Pledge of Allegiance case. I'm kind of surprised he was dumb enough to go on that hunting trip.

[GOPFighter]

3. They've become so arrogant...

..they don't even try to hide their disdain for fairness and honesty. Look, America, to the beginnings of the new Nobility.

[KoKo]

5. Agree, they new this would get coverage. They flaunted it in our Face!

This actually is more scary given the bad press from "Pheasant Kill" last month.

No shame, no accountability. :scared: WHY?

[gonefishing]

4. My God when is America going to wake up!

And reject this insanity.

[TEXASYANKEE]

6. When ...

When the news media pays more attention to this type of matter than it does to Scott Peterson and Kobe Bryant.

[platinumPens]

7. The arrogance of corruption is so profound