American's Premier Conservative Jurist Answers a Liberal Smear (and provides some of the finest polemics of the 2004 presidential election season)
As the 2004 presidential campaign got off
the ground, the Left discovered a new way
to attack a detested Republican president—
at the same time undermining the integrity
of conservative judges. Supreme Court
Justice Antonin Scalia, nominated by
President Reagan in 1986 and confirmed
with near unanimity by the United States
Senate, was put under the media’s
microscope.
Scalia’s rather unfruitful hunting trip with Vice President Dick
Cheney materialized as front-page news. He should, agreed the New
York Times with the Washington Post, recuse himself from a case
before the high court in which the Vice President plays a key role.
Scalia’s reaction: scorn. With acute legal and more justification, all
of it neatly packed into 21 tightly-reasoned pages, the high court’s
most talented jurist dissects the Left’s special pleading, in a formal
denial issued from the bench.
“We’ve rarely enjoyed a Supreme Court memorandum more.”—Wall Street Journal
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