"Duckgate"

Good grief. Thank you Richard Nixon. For the rest of our natural born days every scandal will be a "gate".

Anyhoo...

As regards the Scalia-Cheney scandal:

U.S. Code says that "any justice... shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned... where he has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party... " (28 U.S. Code § 455).   TomPaine article

But the catch is that the judge must recuse himself. As I've commented before, that hardly seems like it is deisgned to serve justice. And isn't that what the judicial system is about?

The only remedy if the judge refuses is impeachment. So when does the proceeding against Scalia start?

Think of how it will appear if, in another 5-to-4 split decision, the Supreme Court overturns the rulings of two lower courts, and Scalia again changes both his friend’s fate and that of the nation. Cheney would not have to disclose even who attended meetings on the nation’s energy policy. How would that look?

Well, it looks like the corruption that it is. Why on earth is it even a question - who attended meetings on the nation's energy policy? How did we ever get to the place where there is even any possibility of that information being secret?