Liberal Repercussion

"Fat Tony" Scalia

http://nytimes.com/2004/03/15/opinion/15MON1.html



When the Sierra Club moved formally for Justice Scalia's recusal, the court properly referred the motion to him initially. The court has a practice of letting individual justices handle their own recusal issues and Chief Justice William Rehnquist and the other justices probably do not relish second-guessing Justice Scalia's personal contacts. But Justice Scalia has had time to do the proper thing, and his eight colleagues now need to render an institutional judgment on the widely expressed concern about his impartiality.

The swelling controversy has exposed other less egregious but still troubling outside activities by Justice Scalia. The Los Angeles Times recently reported that he delivered a speech to a $150-a-plate dinner of an anti-gay advocacy group in Philadelphia even as the Supreme Court was deliberating in the Texas sodomy case last year.

posted by Rei Toei @ 11:06 p.m.