Legal Issues

This political cartoon by Daryle Cagle is a great satire on the debate over Justice Scalias refusal to recuse from Dick Cheney s Energy Task Force closed-door meetings. I believe that there is considerable evidence that the two were more than mere acquaintances. In particular, they have gone duck-hunting and spent an inordinate time alone together.  However, in his memorandum, Justice Scalia emphasized that his impartiality could not be reasonably questioned because of these instances. There was no z-Bottom of Formappearance of a conflict of interest to Justice Scalia. HTML MarkupIn my opinion, it is fairly evident that Justice Scalia should recuse himself from the case in view of the circumstances but both individuals are denying the obvious. It is disappointing that a Supreme Court Justice is not taking responsibility and recusing himself for reasons apparent to all.

The cartoon shows both Cheney and Scalia standing and looking at a large sized duck but Cheney is twisting the fact and calling it a large sized chicken. The real pun is the duck in the center which is named  Conflict of Interest . Scalia, on the other hand, is adamant on shooting the Duck or the conflict of interest. This is drawing upon the fact that Scalia in his memorandum wants to kill the conflict of interest, so that it does not exist in front of the public eye.