Scalia Angrily Defends His Duck Hunt With Cheney

"Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court today bluntly rejected demands that he step aside in a case involving Vice President Dick Cheney, mocking criticism that a duck hunting trip the two were on in January suggested he would be biased toward his longtime friend.
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In a 21-page memorandum filled with scorn and with lessons in the ways of Washington, Justice Scalia wrote that if people assumed a duck hunting trip would be enough to swing his vote, ``the nation is in deeper trouble than I had imagined.''"

Scalia's hunting trip with Cheney, flown in on Air Force 2, is just another example of the extremely chummy relationship that he has with the Bush crowd. After having witnessed an extremely interventionist Supreme Court elect Bush in 2000, you can now expect the Supreme Court officials to claim just about anything and everything, no matter how outrageous. That's the Bubba factor: the bigger the gaffe, the more preposterous the situation, the more moral indignation you express in return to criticism.