Political Cartoon
Christine Livingston
CJA 324
August 13, 2012
Lawrence Avallone
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[pic](“About.com”, 2008).
Before the debates began, Cheney and Scalia recently were seen on a duck hunting trip in the
same place at the same time. I would have to disagree that the 2 were actually hunting together. The
picture suggests that the 2 were duck hunting together as friends. Scalia objected to several demands to
not get involved in a case in which Vice President Dick Cheney was involved in. Scalia mocked
criticism that suggested because the two were seen on a hunting trip Scalia would be biased toward
Cheney which is supposedly his long time friend. “A rule that required members of this court to remove themselves from cases in which the official actions of friends were at issue would be utterly disabling,'' Justice Scalia wrote.
During the hunting trip to Louisiana, which the memorandum said involved 13 hunters as well as Mr. Cheney's security detail, ``I never hunted in the same blind with the vice president,'' he said.
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“Nor was I alone with him at any time during the trip,'' he continued, “except, perhaps, for instances so brief and unintentional that I would not recall them walking to or from a boat, perhaps, or going to or from dinner. Of course we said not a word about the present case” (Twomey, 2004, p. 1). Scalia refuses to admit that he and Cheney were once friends. All the rucus prompted when Scalia went on the hunting trip with Cheney. He flew to Lousiane on Cheney's private jet, but because of all the attention he flew back on a regular plane. Had Scalia told everyone in the beginning that he was not accepting gifts from Cheney all the publicity could have been avoided. He kept information from the public so it would not look as if he were going to help Cheney in the case. All the rucus prompted when Scalia went on the hunting trip with Cheney.
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REFERENCES
About.com. (2008). Retrieved from http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/.../ig/Political.../Hunting-Partners.htm
Twomey, S. (2004, March 18). Scalia Angrily Defends His Duck Hunt With Cheney. The New York Times, p. 1.
