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Justice Scalia led the way for Supreme Court justices taking free trips

WASHINGTON — The late Justice Antonin Scalia left a long legacy on the Supreme Court, from his devotion to originalism to his sharp-tongued rhetoric. But the enthusiastic hunter and fisherman also set a precedent of sorts on how to take free trips without disclosing them — one that is now causing headaches for some justices. In 2004, Scalia flew with then-Vice President Dick Cheney for a duck ...
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, seen in 2014, waits for the beginning of the taping of "The Kalb Report" at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C..

WASHINGTON — The late Justice Antonin Scalia left a long legacy on the Supreme Court, from his devotion to originalism to his sharp-tongued rhetoric.

But the enthusiastic hunter and fisherman also set a precedent of sorts on how to take free trips without disclosing them — one that is now causing headaches for some justices.

In 2004, Scalia flew with then-Vice President Dick Cheney for a duck

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