Chief Justice Rehnquist says it's just fine with him for Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the most disgraceful characters to ever sit on the Supreme Court, to rule on his huntin' buddy Dick Chaney's secrecy case: High Court Won't Review Scalia's Recusal Decision Los Angeles Times 01/27/04:
"There is no formal procedure for court review of the decision of a justice in an individual case," Rehnquist said in a letter to Democratic Sens. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. "That is so because it has long been settled that each justice must decide such a question for himself."
He added that it was "ill-considered" for the senators to suggest that Scalia step aside in the pending case involving Cheney and the White House task force he headed to develop the Bush administration's energy policy. Cheney has refused to disclose records of the task force's activities.
Translation: Hey, we know it's a good-ole-boy farce to do business this way but, hey, we're Republicans. We're in control. And this is how we're going to do it.
As I said earlier: I mean, couldn't they at least pretend to be conducting themselves in a business-like way? Of course not. Scalia is strictly from the Roger Taney school or jurisprudence. (That would be Roger Taney of the Dred Scott decision fame.)
The answer hasn't changed in the last week and a half.
2 comments:
You could have used the title of your previous entry, "This Reeks," for this entry too.
Ha! You're right! Or "Stinks to High Heaven" would have worked, too. - Bruce
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