Supreme trust."For Pete's sake, if you can't trust your Supreme Court justice more than that, get a life," said Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Sca·li·a , Antonin Born 1936. American jurist who was appointed an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1986. to an audience member at the University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut is the State of Connecticut's land-grant university. It was founded in 1881 and serves more than 27,000 students on its six campuses, including more than 9,000 graduate students in multiple programs. UConn's main campus is in Storrs, Connecticut. who questioned Scalia's refusal last year to recuse To disqualify or remove oneself as a judge over a particular proceeding because of one's conflict of interest. Recusal, or the judge's act of disqualifying himself or herself from presiding over a proceeding, is based on the Maxim himself from a case involving his hunting buddy Vice President Dick Cheney. Scalia also said, "I think the proudest thing I've done on the bench was not to allow myself to be chased off that case. |
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