Scalia Addressed Advocacy Group Before Key Decision

[G_j]

www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0308-05.htm

 
Published on Monday, March 8, 2004 by the Los Angeles Times

Scalia Addressed Advocacy Group Before Key Decision

by Richard A. Serrano and David G. Savage

 WASHINGTON ? As the Supreme Court was weighing a landmark gay rights case last year, Justice Antonin Scalia gave a keynote dinner speech in Philadelphia for an advocacy group waging a legal battle against gay rights.

Scalia addressed the $150-a-plate dinner hosted by the Urban Family Council two months after hearing oral arguments in a challenge to a Texas law that made gay sex a crime. A month after the dinner, he sharply dissented from the high court's decision overturning the Texas law.

Some experts on legal ethics said they saw no problem in Scalia's appearance before the group. But others say he should not have accepted the invitation because it calls into question his impartiality on an issue that looms increasingly large on the nation's legal agenda.

Scalia declined to comment on his appearance before the group.

Scalia's activities outside the court in two other instances ? both involving hunting trips ? have also drawn criticism for suggesting partiality on cases before his court. But the Philadelphia dinner May 20, unlike the other cases, shows him appearing to support partisan advocates on a hotly disputed issue.
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[Malva Zebrina]

1. Oh for godamm sake

why does a Supreme Court Justice ever--and I mean EVER-- have to appear to speak at a 150$ plate dinner at all? Or even at a 5$ a plate dinner. Why? What is his purpose and where the hell did that money go?

Goddammit--why?

[G_j]

3. to pay for his hunting trips? n/t

[BigVanVader]

2. Was this in between his hunting trip with Cheney? barf

Good luck with your dissents, Scalia.

[NC_Nurse]

4. The arrogance

of this man amazes me! I guess he thinks he's untouchable.

I wouldn't be surprised if they catch him with a bed full of interesting people and a crack pipe in his mouth someday!:evilgrin:

[madrchsod]

5. scalia will be the

worse supreme court judge ever. he is a justice for hire. the other court members are cowards for not calling him out on his actions.it is a sad time in the history of our country.