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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-08-04 12:01 PM
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Another Conflict of Interest for Duck Huntin' Scalia
WASHINGTON — As the Supreme Court was weighing a landmark gay rights case last year, Justice Antonin Scalia gave a keynote dinner speech in Philadelphia for an advocacy group waging a legal battle against gay rights.
Scalia addressed the $150-a-plate dinner hosted by the Urban Family Council two months after hearing oral arguments in a challenge to a Texas law that made gay sex a crime. A month after the dinner, he sharply dissented from the high court's decision overturning the Texas law.
Scalia's activities outside the court in two other instances — both involving hunting trips — have also drawn criticism for suggesting partiality on cases before his court. But the Philadelphia dinner May 20, unlike the other cases, shows him appearing to support partisan advocates on a hotly disputed issue."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scalia8mar08,1,751098.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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Rainbowreflect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-08-04 12:12 PM
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1. I am shocked, simply shocked that he would do anything unseemly.
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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-08-04 12:14 PM
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2. Did you catch the part
about the dinner losing money because 125 bigots hit the open bar?
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