WASHINGTON, March 18 (UPI) -- Justice Antonin Scalia said Thursday he will not withdraw from a U.S. Supreme Court case involving his duck-hunting companion, Vice President Richard Cheney.
Two public interest groups, Judicial Watch and the Sierra Club, are trying to force Cheney to make public the records of the national energy policy group he headed. A lower court has ordered Cheney to produce the records, and the Supreme Court will hear argument in the dispute in April.
Scalia went on a duck-hunting trip with Cheney a month after the high court agreed to hear the case.
In a memorandum Thursday, Scalia notes the Sierra Club has filed a motion asking for his withdrawal because of a possible conflict of interest, but Judicial Watch has not joined in that motion.
In his 21-page memo, Scalia says since there is no basis for his withdrawal, he will not do so.
