A decade ago, an environmental watchdog law firm reported a trend in corporate-funded junkets that sent federal judges to free seminars in resort locations, raising ethical concerns about potential conflicts with pending litigation.
Then came the famous duck-hunting trip in 2003 that raised eyebrows when Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia joined Vice President Dick Cheney in southern Louisiana for a duck hunt just three weeks after the court agreed to hear a case challenging Cheney’s handling of an energy task force.
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