Scalia Refuses Recusal.

Impeach! Impeach! Impeach!


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Scotus-Scalia-Cheney.html?pagewanted=print&position=

March 18, 2004
Scalia Won't Remove Self From Cheney Case
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 11:02 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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.''

``My recusal is required if ... my impartiality might reasonably be questioned,'' Scalia wrote. ``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?''


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"impartiality might reasonably be questioned"?

And this guy interprets words and makes decisions based on those words? Scalia is so corrupt, such a crook that he is not only blantant but apparently enjoys shoving it in people's faces. Scalia is rotten to the core. Scalia is completely and totally corrupt. There is absolutely nothing redeeming about Scalia. Scalia is the face of corruption.

Or the Supreme Court's impartiality is diminished even more than it was by selection 2000.

Fuck you, your honor!

Defendant: So, if I call you an idiot, that's contempt of court?

Scalia: Yes.

Defendant: But if I think it, you can't do anything about it?

Scalia: Correct.

Defendant: In that case, I think you're an idiot.

I don't think Antonin Scalia can see past the title "Chief Justice Scalia" to understand the meaning of what recusal is. The guy makes no move to avoid partiality (or the appearance of it) and then wonders why pols call for his recusal in the decision. I can already tell you which way he'll vote! What the hell is he needed for?

Defendent: So I can't call a judge an asshole?
Scalia: That's correct.
Defendent: Can I call an asshole a judge?
Scalia: Er, um, yes.
Defendent: Thank you, judge.

Sadly, looks like Scalia will get to cast his BIASED vote in this case for his good friend Dick.

But we don't have to take it quietly....

April 27 is the date of the hearing. A LARGE LARGE protest should happen that day in DC.

Arrogant bastard. The scariest thing about all of these people is how they don't seem to feel that the laws and rules apply to them.

They are anointed. They are above the law.

I hate them, deeply.



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It seems to me I have seen his impartiality reasonably questioned in NY Times and Wash Post both. I guess his opinion is the only one considered "reasonable". Well we know beyond a shadow of a doubt how the outcome will be. 5-4 once more. Traitors against Democracy is what they are with Scalia as their leader.

Report. Lets start guessing what's in there. Wouldn't it be great if there were real journalists in this country to do just that? Does the report insist that the United States take the iraqi oil field by force if necessary to secure no bid contracts for cheney's "former" company halliburton? That Mission has been Accomplished.

Why pray tell, dick is so damn important that tony the fixer here your case? Are you and tony impugning the integrity of the other members of the SC?

Please opine away and pass on your skepticism near and far.

without looking like a Bircher of the Left? Scalia, I believe, has to go because he is corrupting the whole notion of judicial impartiality. When a justice is as brazen as Scalia is, he's begging to be tried for his behavior. He really is. There needs to be a credible movement that he can actually fear going, one based on the idea that the Republicans will not control the Senate forever. Scalia has to be put on notice that his day in court, so to speak, is coming.

Looooong ago I heard the NLG was making some move to impeach the 5 who installed shrub, but I could find no news about that after 9/11.

I think that Scalia is just about the worst person on Earth!

:grr:

He's the very worst offender.

to go after Fat Tony other than the impeachment process? Is a Supreme Court Justice accountable to anyone?

We need bumper stickers to that effect!

The standard is "the appearance of impropriety". There is the appearance of impropriety all over this thing.

Scalia is going down. Start writing your congressional representatives and Senators today. Demand they formally charge Scalia and draft articles of impeachment!

We need members of Congress with the courage to sponsor impeachment. And not just a fruitcake Bob Barr of the Democrats. We need someone with the stature and reputation of Russ Feingold. Wouldn't it be amazing if we could convince Chuck Schumer to lead this charge?

I don't think it will be a Senator, however.

in the duck blind.

What's amazing is how the right wing no longer makes the slightest token effort to conceal their "you-suck-mine-and-I'll-suck-yours" machinations.

It's doubly amazing that people just sit still for it. We should all be out screaming in the streets! :grr:

I'd bring suit against the POS traitor.

This is grossly unethical.

Does the Senate not have an obligation to question this? Can representatives ask for the removal of a SC judge from a case? I recall that the system of checks and balances was pretty circular. Am I wrong on this one?