Should Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia recuse himself?

[Zinfandel]

From a trial, many here at DU have been waiting years for.

All we are asking is to tell us who was at those White House meetings. Meetings that created our nations energy policy. VP Dick Cheney has been so arrogant, even under a court order to release those names. The media has let him get away with it so far, pretty much just burying the story.

Cheney, just thumbs his nose at anyone who wants to know. (although we here at DU and elsewhere know Ken Lay was there and many other top CEO from Oil, Coal and Nuclear and other polluting industries). Along with big lumber, etc...but no alternative power was represented (solar, wind, Hydro, etc.) WHY? We know why...it would take money away from all of those greedy polluting BushCo friends, who were at that meeting.

Now the right-wing Scalia WHO put Bush and Cheney in the White House in 2000, won't do the proper thing (surprise, surprise...these fascist are going to be tough to get out of government)

DEFIANCE OVER CHENEY CASE:

A defiant Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia refused Thursday to remove himself from a case involving his good friend, Vice President Dick Cheney, dismissing suggestions of a conflict of interest.

In an unusual 21-page memorandum, he rejected a request by the Sierra Club. The environmental group said it was improper for Scalia to take a hunting trip with Cheney while the court was considering whether the White House must release information about private meetings of Cheney's energy task force.

Scalia said the remote Louisiana hunting camp used for a duck hunting and fishing trip "was not an intimate setting" and that the energy case was never discussed.

The justice said he was guilty only of hunting with a friend and taking a free plane ride to get there. "If it is reasonable to think that a Supreme Court justice can be bought so cheap, the nation is in deeper trouble than I had imagined," Scalia wrote.

"My recusal is required if ... my impartiality might reasonably be questioned," he said. "Why would that result follow from my being in a sizable group of persons, in a hunting camp with the vice president, where I never hunted with him in the same blind or had other opportunity for private conversation?"

What a liar...I'm sure Cheney is getting a big laugh over it.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/03/18/national1010EST0548.DTL


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[Bonhomme Richard]

1. What's really scary is if bush gets selected again .......

Scalia will probably be the next Chief Justice.

[Jacobin]

2. No. He should be thrown off a cliff

[billybob537]

3. Smug

I smell a seat on the carlysle group board.

[Zinfandel]

4. Scalia's got a job till he dies, what the fuck does he care what we think?

He's a right-wing fascist with elitists ideology...He loves this fascist Bush administration...he plans to named head of the Supreme Court.

I believe even Scalia's son works in the Bush Administration.

[Zinfandel]

5. A KICK in the balls...fucking read it!

:kick:

[AP]

6. Of course. Scalia's idiotic logic:

SC justices are often appointed because their friends of the president. So, they can't recuse themselves just because they are friends, or they'd always be recusing themselves.

Uh, hello. Firstly, Clinton didn't appoint friends to the SC.

Secondly, this is probably the best argument for why Presidents shouldn't appoint friends to the SC. If they knew that their friends would constantly be recusing themselves, there'd by no incentive in appointing them. DUH!!!!!!

Scalia has to be one of the stupidest asses wearing a robe in America.

[spanone]

7. Damn right he should. it's an insult to our judicial system.