Justices Send Group’s Recusal Motion to Scalia
The Supreme Court said it referred to Justice Antonin Scalia a request that he remove himself from a case about Vice President Dick Cheney’s energy task force because their recent duck-hunting trip raised questions about his impartiality.
The Sierra Club environmental group filed a motion last week asking that Scalia disqualify himself from the case because the January trip had created “an appearance of impropriety.”
The justices said in a brief order, “In accordance with its historic practice, the court refers the motion to recuse in this case to Justice Scalia.”
Scalia has defended his decision to go on the trip.
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