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Wednesday, March 03, 2004
The Fix Is In?
Now we learn about this:
When the Supreme Court denied review in a little-noticed case involving the Republic of Croatia in October 2002, Croatia's lawyer in the case remembers doing a double take when he saw the Court's order.
The order indicated that Justice Antonin Scalia had recused in Kahvedzic v. Republic of Croatia, No. 02-5917, and Tomislav Kuzmanovic was mystified. "I still have absolutely no idea why he did that," says Kuzmanovic, a Milwaukee-based partner at Hinshaw & Culbertson, who represented Croatia. As far as he knew, nobody connected to the case, which involved a property dispute in Bosnia, had any connection to Scalia.
Scalia did not explain his recusal -- justices rarely do -- but his motivation may have been revealed in a financial disclosure form he filed the following year: Scalia reported that he had been reimbursed by Croatia for a trip to meet Croatian judges in July 2002, just before the case came before the Court. The trip to Zagreb was one of 15 subsidized trips Scalia took that year.
It's starting to look like a) Scalia's is being ridiculously stubborn by not recusing in the Cheney case or b) there's some funny business going on...
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