Scalia's other hunting trip
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has faced pressure to recuse himself from a high court case involving his friend and duck-hunting partner Dick Cheney. The Los Angeles Times was out in front in reporting on the questionable Cheney duck-hunting excursion, and now the paper shows that this behavior seems to be a pattern with Scalia. "Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was the guest of a Kansas law school two years ago and went pheasant hunting on a trip arranged by the school's dean, all within weeks of hearing two cases in which the dean was a lead attorney," the Times says.
"The cases involved issues of public policy important to Kansas officials. Accompanying Scalia on the November 2001 hunting trip were the Kansas governor and the recently retired state Senate president, who flew with Scalia to the hunting camp aboard a state plane. Two weeks before the trip, University of Kansas School of Law Dean Stephen R. McAllister, along with the state's attorney general, had appeared before the Supreme Court to defend a Kansas law to confine sex offenders after they complete their prison terms. Two weeks after the trip, the dean was before the high court to lead the state's defense of a Kansas prison program for treating sex criminals."
-- Geraldine Sealey
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http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html/index.html>The Justice is obviously out to lunch if he thinks this is all OK
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