Fat Tony's former clerk "downplays concern" over upcoming T.T.E. ("Teabagger Teaching Event")

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Justice Scalia set to address Tea Party Caucus on Capitol HillBy Bill Mears, CNN Supreme Court Producer
January 21, 2011 10:53 p.m. EST

Critics of Scalia's appearance said it could raise the appearance of impropriety and lead to political polarization over the high court.

The speech "suggests an alliance between the conservative members of the court and the conservative members of Congress," Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, said on his legal blog. He said the justice was showing "exceedingly poor judgment."

But Edward Whelan, a former Scalia law clerk, and head of the Ethics & Public Policy Center, downplayed any concern.

"Does he think it's improper for any justice ever to speak to any group of members of Congress who might be perceived as sharing the same general political disposition?," he asked in a posting on the National Review's Bench Memos blog. "My guess is that, schedule permitting, Scalia would be happy to speak on the same topic to any similar group of members of Congress who invited him."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/21/scotus.scalia.tea.party/index.html?hpt=Sbin

[gratuitous]

1. It's the only group that will have him

And Cheney's the only person who will go hunting with him. Although I notice that Fat Tony doesn't seem to go hunting anymore. Not that there was anything improper about Dick and Tony going hunting while Dick had cases pending in Tony's court. Nothing improper at all. Not a thing improper. At all.

So stop saying that.

[MrModerate]

2. Do we "think it's improper . . . ?" Hell yes!

We the people (ya know, the entities that the teabaggers maintain they were listening to last November) think that justices of the supreme court pandering to any specific faction is highly disturbing and in this specific case indicates a steady decline in Justice Scalia's ability to judge the appropriateness of his actions.

Perhaps a psychological assessment is in order to see if he's mentally fit to serve?