Justices Scalia, Thomas Honored at Fundraiser Sponsored by Health Care Reform Opponents

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http://www.truth-out.org/justices-scalia-thomas-honored-fundraiser-sponsored-health-care-reform-opponents/1321388558


A few hours after the Supreme Court justices met last Thursday, November 10, to consider hearing challenges to the national health care overhaul, Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas were the honored speakers at a fundraiser for a conservative legal group that was sponsored in part by health care reform opponents involved in the litigation.

The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would review three challenges to the Affordable Care Act, the 2010 health care reform law championed by the Obama administration and opposed by conservative groups nationwide. The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of the law - and the controversial individual mandate that requires taxpayers to obtain heath insurance - in June, as the 2012 campaign season is in full swing.

Soon after the justices met to discuss hearing the cases, Scalia and Thomas were the featured honorees and speakers at an annual fundraiser for The Federalist Society, a conservative legal group.

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Paul Clement, a lead attorney who will argue before the Supreme Court in March on behalf of 26 states that challenged the law, sat between Scalia and Thomas during the fundraising dinner. Clement's firm, Bancroft PLLC, was listed as a "silver" sponsor of the dinner.

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can you say BLATANT slap in our faces

also, this happened and seems to be ignored:

In March, dozens of high-profile legal ethicists wrote a nonpartisan letter to ranking members of the Senate Judiciary Committee asking them to impose the Code of Conduct on the Supreme Court.

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1. system = broken