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Originally posted by bilmore
So, if Cheney buys Scalia the new house, and then Scalia rules in Cheney's favor, all he has to do is say "I did it on the merits!"
Cool. You have constructed the perfectly un-violatable bribery definition.
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Judges are concerned with the appearance of impropriety. Or they ought to be. When it doesn't seem to register that there's something off about going duck hunting with one of the parties in a case in front of you, you start to wonder.
I said that when you pay something and they do something they're going to do anyway, that's not bribery. I don't understand what you think my "bribery definition" is. Although if you are suggesting that Scalia was inevitably going to rule in Cheney's favor, I'm not sure I can prove otherwise.
