From The Center for American Progress:

SCALIA WAS CHENEY'S GUEST: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was Vice President Dick Cheney's guest when the two went duck hunting last month. Despite the fact that the Supreme Court announced three weeks prior that they would hear a case involving the Vice President, Cheney flew Scalia to the private hunting camp on Air Force Two. Taxpayers also paid for "a second, backup Air Force jet that carried staff and security aides to the vice president" and "two military Black Hawk helicopters" which " were brought in and hovered nearby." Scalia is refusing to recuse himself from the case. But as New York University law professor Stephen Gillers said, "It is not just a trip with a litigant. It's a trip at the expense of the litigant. This is an easy case for stepping aside." (On top of this, remember that Cheney's case in front of the Supreme Court deals in part with how much influence the oil industry may have had in the creation of Cheney's Energy bill? The private hunting camp is owned by wealthy oilman "Wallace Carline, the head of Diamond Services Corp., an oil services firm that is on 41 acres of waterfront property in Amelia, La. The company provides oil dredging, pile driving, salvage work, fabrication, pipe-rolling capability and general oilfield construction.")