Alito and the Republican blindness to conflicts of interest.

Judge Alito's defense of his handling of the Vanguard case shows the blindness of the Republicans to conflicts of interest. Alito's defense does not pass the common sense test and he should never have heard yet alone rule on this case. That is why it was overturned and handed to another judge. The fact that he took the case shows that his judicial judgment is questionable. Of course like many Republicans in Washington these days he blames the problem on someone else or I should say something else in this case a computer.
Looking at how the Republicans turned a blind eye to Alito's conflict of interest reminded me of another Republican who did not see a conflict of interest which also did not pass the common sense test. That is the issue of FCC commissioner Michael Powell's vote on the Time Warner/AOL merger even though his father Colin Powell was on the board of Directors of AOL at the time. .
And then of course there refusal of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia to recuse himself from a case involving his close personal friend Vice President Dick Cheney. Scalia, Cheney, Alito and Powell and the Republicans in control of the government just don't smell the conflict of interest yet alone the stench of corruption that is Washington today.