Blind Justice?

Several organizations are questioning the propriety of the Supreme Court preparing to consider the case of whether the details of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force can be released in light of the fact that Mr. Cheney, good friends with Justice Antonin Scalia, has recently spent a fair amount of time with the justice. The New York Times has this story on it.

It would seem that Justice Scalia should at the very least recuse himself from this particular case, just on the issue of their relatively close friendship. The highly opinionated and often self-righteous Scalia, however, has said on record that no one can reasonably draw the conclusion that he would be swayed by his close ties to the VP. I would disagree as I suspect many others would.