June 2, 2004

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  Rehnquist Orders Study After Scalia Flap

  
  

   

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  Tue May 25, 9:53 PM ET

  
  

  By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer
  

  WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has ordered a study of federal judicial ethics, a move that follows intense criticism of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's hunting trip with Vice President Dick Cheney and congressional complaints that judges were lax in policing themselves.
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  Supreme Court justices decide for themselves if they have conflicts of interest, and their decisions are final. Separately, a law allows complaints to be lodged alleging federal judges have engaged in "conduct prejudicial to the effective and expeditious administration of the business of the courts."
  

  
  

  
  

  Scalia took the trip in January with Cheney three weeks after the court agreed to hear the Bush administration's appeal of a ruling that ordered public disclosure of details of an energy task force chaired by Cheney.
  

  
  

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