Philly Inquirer blasts Cheney/Scalia (Editorial and Auth Cartoon)

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Feb. 11, 2004
Editorial | Cheney and Scalia
So that's why it's called a duck 'blind'

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/7923626.htm

Two old pals took a duck-hunting trip to Louisiana last month, and now one of them is in the soup.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was the guest of Vice President Dick Cheney - and American taxpayers - aboard Air Force Two.

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Several respected legal ethicists agree: Scalia should recuse himself from the Cheney energy-policy case because, as the federal law on judicial recusals states, "his impartiality might reasonably be questioned."

Scalia says he has no intention of doing so, which shows that even a brilliant legal mind is capable of compounding one faux pas with another. It's not as though the justice never acknowledges conflict of interest; he's recused himself many times from cases in which his son, who works for the Labor Department, was involved.

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Plus the Tony Auth cartoon on the same page:

[reprehensor]

1. That's funny...

He never recused himself from Bush v. Gore when at least one of his sons was on Shrub's legal team...I see a pattern emerging...

[tom_paine]

2. Exactly. Fat Tony Scalia is NOT a judge

(not by the "strict definition" of the term at least)

He is a political operative, plain and simple, which along with his 2nd vote, the malleable Clarence "Slappy" Thomas (My God, what must Thurgood Marshall be thinking up in heaven when he looks down to see this moral and intellectual dwarf sitting in his seat!), is to support the Emperor and toss key decisions the Imperial way without regard for what the law actually says.

Which is why Fat Tony could give a shit about judicial codes of ethics and such.

The only people foolsih enough to think he cares about them are the same poeple foolish enough to think he is a judge.

[groovedaddy]

3. What was it that Scalia said to the Nat'l Press Club

when he wouldn't allow himself to be recorded? Something in regard to the Patriot Act like: "Americans have far more rights than they really need..."

[LiberalFighter]

4. Duck hunting issue brought up tonite on ABC

Jennings was tapping his fingers while reporting the segment. I wonder what that means when that is done.

[Skittles]

5. brilliant legal mind? Scalia?

Please- he is an RNC hack.