Sunday, February 17, 2008

NLG Calls on Justice Antonin Scalia to Recuse Himself From Interrogation-Related Cases

Following his disgraceful interview with the BBC, the National Lawyers Guild has requested that Antonin Scalia recuse himself from any torture related cases, as he has clearly prejudged this case, and shown himself not to be impartial in this matter:
Justice Scalia’s remarks inevitably pre-judge the issues in every case in which the Constitution might dictate suppression of evidence because of illegal police interrogation techniques, or the right to compensation of a person subjected to a violation of civil rights. We therefore call upon Justice Scalia to recuse himself from any case which comes before the Court in which such issues are at stake.
Increasingly, we have heard these outrageous statements from Scalia, the case of the obscene gesture in church comes to mind, and I'm wondering if we are seeing early onset Alzheimer's.

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