Trip With Cheney Puts Ethics Spotlight on Scalia (no words)

[cthrumatrix]

Trip With Cheney Puts Ethics Spotlight on Scalia
Sat Jan 17,11:48 AM ET

By David G. Savage, Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (news - web sites) spent part of last week duck hunting together at a private camp in southern Louisiana just three weeks after the court agreed to take up the vice president's appeal in lawsuits over his handling of the administration's energy task force.


While Scalia and Cheney are avid hunters and longtime friends, several experts in legal ethics questioned the timing of their trip and said it raised doubts about Scalia's ability to judge the case impartially.


But Scalia rejected that concern Friday, saying, "I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned."


Federal law says "any justice or judge shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might be questioned." For nearly three years, Cheney has been fighting demands that he reveal whether he met with energy industry officials, including Kenneth L. Lay when he was chairman of Enron, while he was formulating the president's energy policy.


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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=2026&e=2&u=/latimes_ts/20040117/ts_latimes/tripwithcheneyputsethicsspotlightonscalia

i'm sure the media will share this with us

[Toots]

1. Four to four tie now

Scalia's out of there now. There is no way he can not recuse himself from the case. How will the others vote and what happens if it turns out four to four?

[Benhurst]

4. I hope you're right; but I wouldn't count on it. n/t

[LibertyorDeath]

2. Unbelievable

[glitch]

3. what a loon

"I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned."

[enough]

5. I would say "incredible"

but with these guys ... oh well.

Every move they make is an insult to the country. But we're used to it by now.

[wtmusic]

6. "C'mon over Tony, we'll shoot some ducks,

have a beer. We don't have to talk about those silly lawsuits..."

[Fridays Child]

7. Scalia: "I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned."

Oh, so true. It would be entirely unreasonable to assume that you are, in any way, impartial.

[Cat Atomic]

8. This story is on the front page of the Los Angeles Times.

The only way Cheney can skate by on this is if Scalia recuses himself and the court still lets him keep the energy policy meeting roster secret.