Friday, February 06, 2004

Justice Antonin Scalia accompanied Mr Cheney, an old friend, on a duck-shooting trip to Louisiana in January.
The Los Angeles Times says they travelled aboard one of the presidential jets, Air Force Two.
Mr Cheney is a defendant in a case currently before the Supreme Court over his refusal to grant access to records.
Justices regularly withdraw from cases where a conflict of interest is perceived.
But in this case, Justice Scalia has declined to do so, saying: "I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned.

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