“The Supreme Court agreed last month to take up Cheney’s appeal in a case that involves his refusal to disclose the identities of members of his energy task force. Three weeks later, Scalia and Cheney went duck hunting together in the marshes of southern Louisiana.

Scalia maintains there was nothing improper about the trip, but it has prompted more than 20 newspaper editorial demands for President Reagan’s conservative appointee to stay out of the Cheney case.” —Fox Scalia retains the right to make his own decision about whether to recuse himself, unless a party with standing in the case asks him to do so and he refuses, in which case — albeit highly unlikely — the entire Court could review the question of his conflict of interest.