Other Crap

Justice Scalia's argument against recusing himself from the Cheney case. He said: "while friendship is a ground for recusal of a Justice where the personal fortune or the personal freedom of the friend is at issue, it has traditionally not been a ground for recusal where official action is at issue, no matter how important the official action was to the ambitions or the reputation of the Government officer."

• Let me translate that for you. He said --- Dick Cheney is my very good friend, and this is a case which could completely destroy him if it goes against him, but that doesn't matter, because the law only requires me to recuse if the suit is against him PERSONALLY, not if it is against an official action taken by him. So I will not do it, and I am legally correct.
• Presumably Justice Scalia IS legally correct.