Quack quack.
As the Supreme Court was weighing a landmark gay rights case last year, Justice Antonin Scalia gave a keynote dinner speech in Philadelphia for an advocacy group waging a legal battle against gay rights.
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Scalia's activities outside the court in two other instances -- both involving hunting trips -- have also drawn criticism for suggesting partiality on cases before his court. But the Philadelphia dinner May 20, unlike the other cases, shows him appearing to support partisan advocates on a hotly disputed issue.
Judicial bias is a tricky thing. There are no set "rules" for defining when a judge is biased, rather there are intentionally ambiguous guidelines and codes of conduct. It's fine for a judge to be biased as long as he/she does not appear to be biased. While it's plain to see, by his record, that Scalia is biased towards conservative groups and policies, but that is his perogative as a judge. However, by making himself available for use by partisan organizations, and those with a specific agenda, Scalia has opened the door for questions regarding his impartialiaty. When it becomes apparent that a judge is going to rule in a certain manner before a case is heard, then that judge's credibility is undermined. His or her mind is made up beforehand, and it is required of a judge that he/she be open to having his/her mind changed.
Scalia's making it more and more apparent that his mind's made up on most everything. As a judge, he should go.