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Groups see conflict of interest with Cheney, Scalia
Well, duh.
Government watchdogs are raising concerns about a potential conflict of interest for Justice Antonin Scalia because he had dinner and went on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney while the Supreme Court was involved in a case about the vice president's energy task force.
Scalia and Cheney, longtime friends, had dinner at a restaurant on Maryland's Eastern Shore in November, two months after the Bush administration asked the justices to overrule a lower court's decision requiring White House to identify task force members.
The men went duck hunting in Louisiana this month, not long after the court agreed to hear the case.
"It certainly raises questions about the appearance of impropriety, which is the standard that judges are held to,'' said David Bookbinder, the Sierra Club's Washington legal director.
Scalia and Cheney, longtime friends, had dinner at a restaurant on Maryland's Eastern Shore in November, two months after the Bush administration asked the justices to overrule a lower court's decision requiring White House to identify task force members.
The men went duck hunting in Louisiana this month, not long after the court agreed to hear the case.
"It certainly raises questions about the appearance of impropriety, which is the standard that judges are held to,'' said David Bookbinder, the Sierra Club's Washington legal director.
On top of that, it was revealed Friday that the US Supreme Court refused to block the Texas redistricting plan or to block Texas from holding congressional elections next fall under that plan.
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