On his Alaska trip, Alito stayed at a commercial fishing lodge owned by this businessman, who was also a major conservative donor. Three years before, that same businessman flew Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in 2016, on a private jet to Alaska and paid the bill for his stay. Such ...
But FTC was not able to verify the ownership of some of the hunting lodges by press time. The hospitality and/or gifts offered by Gayle and Donald Wright to Scalia and Justice Alito were also omitted from the tally. Plus, three justices since 2005 died while in office,...
Scalia died unexpectedly last Saturday while on a hunting trip in Texas. He was 79. His casket arrived at the Supreme Court Friday morning and was placed in the court’s Great Hall on the catafalque, first used for President Abraham Lincoln. A funeral Mass will be held at the...
When Scalia died, he was staying, for free, at a West Texas hunting lodge owned by a businessman whose company had recently had a matter before the Supreme Court. Then we learned that over the last ten years Scalia took 258 subsidized trips (2004 to 2014), with at least 23 privately ...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the leading conservative voice on the high court, has died at the age of 79, a government source and a family friend told CNN on Saturday. His death set off an immediate debate about whether President Barack Obama should fill the seat in an elec...