Top Reagan DOJ official slams Scalia for 'secretly' meeting tea party members

[meegbear]

A top Justice Department official under President Ronald Reagan tore into Justice Antonin Scalia for holding a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill with tea partyers.

"Justice Antonin Scalia galloped beyond the farthest boundaries of judicial propriety in secretly meeting on Capitol Hill to discuss the Constitution with Tea Party members of Congress saddled with a co-equal duty to assess the constitutionality of legislative action," Bruce Fein, Reagan's associate deputy attorney general, wrote in a published letter to the New York Times.

"If there are better ways to destroy public confidence in judicial impartiality, they do not readily come to mind."

Scalia last week attended a private gathering with on Capitol Hill, ostensibly to discuss the Constitution, with a group of tea party lawmakers led by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), the leader of the House Tea Party Caucus.

Fein wrote that "(n)o justice has ever testified on the constitutionality of bills before Congress," and noted that former Justice Abe Fortas was forced to resign for privately advising President Lyndon Johnson.

"(J)ustices must be above suspicion," he added.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/14/top-reagan-doj-official-slams-scalia-for-tea-party-meeting/

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Fat Tony the "Fixer" doesn't give a rat's ass about propriety

He is a cancer on this nation. An evil cancer at that!

[quinnox]

2. No surprise

I can imagine Scalia going into a huddle with these guys and he will pass on the info to his buddies Clarence Thomas and the other right wing plants on the supreme court.

Wonder what interesting rulings will take place in the future underneath this not-so-secret collaboration.

[Golden Raisin]

3. And absolutely nothing

will be done about it.

[GreenTea]

4. "Slimy Republican Justices are NOT above suspicion!

Republican Supreme Court Justices stopped an election recount in 2000 and handed the election over to their republican loser, George W Bush as facts have proved.....Fucking greedy slimy Republicans!