highgamma
Mar 18, 04, 1:58 pm
In Antonin Scalia's defense of not recusing himself from the Cheney case, he makes an interesting admission.
Page 10 of memo:
"Let me speak first to the value, though that is not the principal point. Our flight down cost the Government nothing, since space-available was the condition of our invitation. And, though our flight down on the Vice Presi-dent’s plane was indeed free, since we were not returning with him we purchased (because they were least expensive) round-trip tickets that cost precisely what we would have paid if we had gone both down and back on commercial
flights. In other words, none of us saved a cent by flying on the Vice President’s plane."
http://news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs/scotus/chny31804jsmem.pdf
Well, if Scalia can get away with it, why can't we?
Page 10 of memo:
"Let me speak first to the value, though that is not the principal point. Our flight down cost the Government nothing, since space-available was the condition of our invitation. And, though our flight down on the Vice Presi-dent’s plane was indeed free, since we were not returning with him we purchased (because they were least expensive) round-trip tickets that cost precisely what we would have paid if we had gone both down and back on commercial
flights. In other words, none of us saved a cent by flying on the Vice President’s plane."
http://news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs/scotus/chny31804jsmem.pdf
Well, if Scalia can get away with it, why can't we?