Impartial Birth

Scalia Addressed Advocacy Group Before Key Decision

Maybe Antonin Scalia should start spending more time at home. It seems like every time he goes out of the house, the arch-conservative of the Supreme Court finds a way to taint his appearance of impartiality in a case before the court. In the latest episode--which follows his duck hunting trip with Dick Cheney and his speech in which he tipped his hand in the pledge of allegiance case and ended up recusing himself--Scalia spoke to an advocacy group opposed to gay rights while the case that eventually overturned all sodomy laws was making its way through the court. Makes his blistering, highly unprofessional dissent in the case (in which he accused his colleagues of signing on to the "gay agenda" and said the nation was abandoning morals) a bit less surprising, no?

If Justice Scalia wants a job where he can decide a case without having to listen to the facts and make blatant efforts to help his friends financially and politically, he should step down from the bench--and take a job with the Bush Administration, where economic plans designed to refund a surplus are tools for fixing economic problems, global warming needs more study before we take action, and every reform "for the people" has a way of lining corporate pockets. He better hurry! Only 10 months left on this nutty ride.