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Fri Feb-06-04 08:23 PM
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Doubt of Scalia's impartiality deepens |
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Edited on Sun Feb-08-04 07:21 PM by Skinner
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia traveled as an official guest of Vice President Dick Cheney on a small government jet that served as Air Force Two when the pair came here last month to hunt ducks.
The revelation cast further doubts about whether Scalia can be an impartial judge in Cheney’s upcoming case before the Supreme Court, legal ethics experts said. The hunting trip took place just weeks after the court agreed to take up Cheney’s bid to keep secret the details of his energy policy task force.
According to those who met them at the small airstrip, the justice and the vice president flew from Washington on Jan. 5 and were accompanied by a second Air Force jet that carried vice presidential staff and security aides.
Two military Black Hawk helicopters were brought in and hovered nearby as Cheney and Scalia were whisked away in a heavily guarded motorcade to a secluded, private hunting camp owned by an oil industry businessman.
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Savage, David G.. "Doubt of Scalia's impartiality deepens." The Atlanta-Journal Constitution 6 FEB 2004, A12.
The fix is in ya’ll!
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Fri Feb-06-04 08:29 PM
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a clearer case of conflict of interest i have not seen...
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Fri Feb-06-04 08:31 PM
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Fri Feb-06-04 08:34 PM
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3. I cited the source in MLA format at the bottom of the screen. It was in to |
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day's Atlanta-Journal Consitution.
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Fri Feb-06-04 08:35 PM
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Fri Feb-06-04 08:37 PM
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6. Even if Scalia is completely impartial ... |
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the facts of this situation demand he recuse himself. Not only must the system be just, it must appear just to the American people.
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Fri Feb-06-04 08:44 PM
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8. “It is not just a trip with a litigant. It’s a trip at the expense of the |
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litigant." That part nails the conflict for me. I'm hoping this story gets more traction than it's getting. Cheney has a habit of trying to 'influence' government officials. From the C.I.A. to the Supreme Court justices - this man knows no bounds. Cheney's actions seem downright impeachable, if not out-and-out criminal. This plot has more wheelin' and dealin' than a season of the Sopranos with Cheney playing the part of the mafia heavy.
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Fri Feb-06-04 08:39 PM
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It's not like he's on the Iraq WMD Panel.
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the idea of cheney trying to influence scalia in his ongoing litigation is laughable. everybody knows that the cheney can count on scalia 100% without having to lift a finger.
if anything nefarious is going on, it's scalia shaking down cheney. not that i think that that's what's happening either.
no, i just take it as evidence of an existing, cozy relationship, which transparently requires recusal.
but the whole thing is laughable, i mean, the felonious five completely threw logic, precedence, and jurisprudence to the wind in order to illegally inject themselves into the electoral process and cast a purely partisan vote, to immense power to THE LITIGANT.
so even if scalia and cheney had no social meeting, scalia would still be biased. but that's reality, not law or politics. the duck hunt gives the argument legal merit.
it's just funny that that's what it takes. flagrant bias and partisanship is fine, just don't hunt together fer crissake!
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Fri Feb-06-04 09:47 PM
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Both of these guys are scumbags.
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Sun Feb-08-04 07:51 PM
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12. Doubts about Scalia's impartiality |
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Edited on Sun Feb-08-04 07:53 PM by Jack Rabbit
Any doubts about Scalia's impartiality should have been laid to rest on December 12, 2000.
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