(2004-03-18) — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia today claimed that his colleague, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, should recuse herself from a case involving Vice President Dick Cheney because she refused to hunt ducks with Mr. Cheney in January.
The statement comes in response to the Sierra Club’s contention that Mr. Scalia should recuse himself, since he accompanied Mr. Cheney on the duck hunt.
“Justice Ginsburg’s failure to hunt ducks with the Vice President gives rise to questions of bias against him,” said Mr. Scalia. “If she were truly objective, she would have hunted with Mr. Cheney and picked off a few ducks for which he was aiming, thereby demonstrating neither blinding affection nor prejudicial antipathy. I like the Vice President but, given the chance, I would shoot his duck…as I have amply demonstrated.”
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