More on Cheney's note to Americans to go eff ourselves....
I don't understand why a judge is responsible for recusing himself in a case. Why isn't there a concensus vote or something? This is as bad as Double-dumb personally appointing the commission who'll investigate why he sold Congress and the UN a bill of goods on WMD.
A duck hunting trip Vice President Dick Cheney took with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia last month has raised questions about a possible conflict of interest because Scalia was hearing a case involving Cheney at the time of the hunt.
The trip included a flight in a U.S. government jet, a ride in a police motorcade and lodging in a floating hunting camp owned by an oil-services tycoon who is a longtime Scalia friend.
Congressional Democrats and newspaper editorials have called for Scalia to step down from the case, which has to do with whether Cheney must reveal who serves on his energy task force. Further complicating the question: The host of the hunting trip is a prominent member of the energy industry.
...Stephen Gillers, a law professor at New York University, said it would be "an easy call" for Scalia to disqualify himself because Cheney apparently paid at least some of the justice's expenses.
"He has to set an example of what conduct is acceptable. Taking a gift from a litigant in a case before you and taking a trip with that litigant in a small group" is not acceptable, Gillers said.
No, it isn't.
Personally, I thought it was illegal.
It should be.
Sunday, February 08, 2004
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