Let’s review: Scalia is one of the Justices who gave his ‘long-time friend’ Dick Cheney the Vice-Presidency (Scalia’s wife and son were involved in the Bush/Cheney campaign and transition team). A month later, Cheney meets in secret with energy corporations (excluding others) — including the notoriously corrupt Enron. After 3 years, Scalia is one to agree to hear about the propriety of that secret meeting. Then he camps with Cheney for days on a trip sponsored by an oil company. Finally, he can’t imagine anyone questioning his impartiality. Scalia is unworthy of the Supreme Court and should be impeached! These guys are beyond belief. mjh
CBS News | Scalia-Cheney Trip Raises Eyebrows | January 17, 2004 11:08:19
Vice President Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spent part of last week duck hunting together at a private camp in southern Louisiana, just three weeks after the court agreed to take up the vice president’s appeal in lawsuits over his handling of the administration’s energy task force, the Los Angeles Times says in its Saturday editions.
While Scalia and Cheney are avid hunters and longtime friends, several experts in legal ethics questioned the timing of their trip and said it raised doubts about Scalia’s ability to judge the case impartially, the newspaper pointed out.
But Scalia rejected that concern Friday, telling the Times, “I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned.”
Federal law says “any justice or judge shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might be questioned,” the Times notes. …
The Times notes that pair arrived Jan. 5 on Gulfstream jets and were guests of Wallace Carline, the owner of Diamond Services Corp., an oil services company in Amelia, La. …
“The duck hunting was lousy …,” the justice said in his written response to the [Los Angeles] Times. “I did come back with a few ducks, which tasted swell.”
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Scalia has said that a judge must avoid even the “appearance of impropriety.” We are witnessing the final
corporate takeover of our government. New Zealand, Canada, etc. look better every day. U.S. government and media no longer have any
credibility or legitimacy whatsoever.
Yes, Scalia’s behavior merits impeachment. It is clear that his personal and political debts to Cheney, Bush, and the Republican Party
make him unfit to participate in this case.
Sign the online petition to impeach Justice Scalia.
http://www.petitiononline.com/1776imp/petition.html
Scalia should have been impeached in November 2000 when he refused to disqualify himself on the Florida vote-
counting decision. His son was in the law firm of the attorney representing Bush’s case. This was nothing less than a breakdown in
government. Once he got away with that, he figured he could get away with anything. He was right.
Maybe Justice Scalia doesn’t think that hearing a case involving his old friend Vice President Cheney suggests an
“appearance of impropriety” because the word “appearance” is far too weak. His failure to recuse himself is BLATANT impropriety.
Justice Scalia is telling us in no uncertain terms that he has no regard for ethics, and
moreover is willing to flaunt his corruption publicly, a shameless and dispicable position for one holding the highest judicial office in
a nation dedicated to justice and the rule of law.
Tom Higham