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benddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-04 12:53 PM
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Impeach Antonin Scalia
Scalia's other hunting trip
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has faced pressure to recuse himself from a high court case involving his friend and duck-hunting partner Dick Cheney. The Los Angeles Times was out in front in reporting on the questionable Cheney duck-hunting excursion, and now the paper shows that this behavior seems to be a pattern with Scalia. "Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was the guest of a Kansas law school two years ago and went pheasant hunting on a trip arranged by the school's dean, all within weeks of hearing two cases in which the dean was a lead attorney," the Times says.

"The cases involved issues of public policy important to Kansas officials. Accompanying Scalia on the November 2001 hunting trip were the Kansas governor and the recently retired state Senate president, who flew with Scalia to the hunting camp aboard a state plane. Two weeks before the trip, University of Kansas School of Law Dean Stephen R. McAllister, along with the state's attorney general, had appeared before the Supreme Court to defend a Kansas law to confine sex offenders after they complete their prison terms. Two weeks after the trip, the dean was before the high court to lead the state's defense of a Kansas prison program for treating sex criminals."

-- Geraldine Sealey

<http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html/index.html>

The Justice is obviously out to lunch if he thinks this is all OK
QUACK QUACK
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BR_Parkway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-04 12:55 PM
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1. My understanding of the SC rules is that unless he has a money
interest involved in the case, then there is no way to force him to recuse himself and no oversight from the other justices to say that he should have. The only option is to impeach him.
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DenverDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-04 12:56 PM
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2. If you have to look at these hunting trips to see Scalia is a sell out
you are not paying attention!
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benddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-04 12:57 PM
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3. I know but
this is hard evidence. All his stupid decisions from the bench aren't impeachable.;)
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DenverDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-04 01:43 PM
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5. Point well taken.
My disgust overwhelmed my reason.
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buckeye1 Donating Member (630 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-04 01:25 PM
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4. Scalia is Opus Dei.
A fascist cult. The ugly wrath of Franco. The pope wants to canonize it. All religion sucks and we must pay for it.

Scalia is a terminal skin disease.
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