Justice Antonin Scalia argued constitutionality, propriety, reliance on history and tradition in the same sex marriage case.
What he is doing in his own practice though, appears to be too much of the wrong "family tradition" - nepotism and cronyism, and too little due process that Justice Scalia apparently hates.
Just some facts. I am sure there are others...
In 2000 Antonin Scalia, as part of the majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, decides the case Bush v Gore, handing over the presidency to George Bush-the-son.
The very next year, in 2001, Antonin Scalia's son Eugene was appointed by President Bush-the-son to be a chief legal officer in the U.S. Department of Labor.
To nominate Judge Antonin Scalia's son George Bush used a "back-door procedure" bypassing the U.S. Senate.
Nobody is seeing anything corrupt here, right?
The more - the merrier.
In 2004 Antonin Scalia had a duck hunting trip with his "longtime friend" Dick Cheney, Vice-President to - guess who - President Bush whom Antonin Scalia put on the throne.
This little issue that he was the "longtime friend" of part of the presidential team did not cause Scalia to recuse in 2000 in Bush v Gore. Antonin Scalia reportedly angrily defended his right to go on a hunting trip with a litigant in front of him (and a longtime friend, which should have caused his recusal to begin with). His justification? Other justices actually were at Cheney's home at Christmas time...
In 2005, Justice Scalia lost his bid for the position of the Chief Judge of the U.S. Supreme Court because of "ethical problems" involving not in small part the duck-hunting trip with Cheney.
The article interlinked above is from January of 2005. In September of 2005 John Roberts was appointed as a judge and selected as a Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Scalia did not stop his "ethical problems" at that. Since there was at that point nothing to lose, and nothing to gain by "being good", he persisted in them.
In 2006, Scalia did not recuse from the case where his son Eugene Scalia's law firm argued a case in front of him, Wal-Mart v. Maryland.
Antonin Scalia did not disqualify himself despite calls from civil rights organizations to do so, moreover, he cast a decisive vote for his son's client.
As succintly summarized by an anonymous commentator on the web, "these f**kers don't even bother to pretend anymore, do they"?
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