But they can be said to be honest relative to someone else.  In the context of politics you can say Conservatives are and still be honest yourself.  But in any other context, you would be a lying.

What always amazes me, and this goes to GOP, Dems, Libertarian, lawyers, doctors, and every other group that I know, is how stupid people can be.

I am not talking Blago, which is just corruption.  I am talking when there is no gain and people just screw up for no reason or gain.

Public officials do not have to pay extra when they declare it on forms, so there is no cost.

The Supreme Court rules of disqualification are very different from other courts, so a justice hardly ever has to recuse himself.  (On a normal appellate court, if a judge (or justice in state court) recuses himself, he can be replaced by another sitting judge.  The U.S. Supreme Court cannot replace a recused justice, so there is the danger of a 4/4 split, or shifting national policy not on the merits of an issue, but because of a lack of one justice.  As a result, things that would normally recuse a circuit judge do not require a Supreme Court Justice to recuse himself.

THerefore, even if a relative is associated with a group that has a case before the court, a justice doesn't have to recuse himself.  (Think of all the enviornmental cases.  Out of the nine justices, there had to be people within two degrees of relationship that had an amicus brief before the court.)

(My guess, without research, is that Heritage may file amicus briefs, but rarely is a party. As I say, just a guess.)

This is a classic case of why the hell not.

I will go to my grave wondering how people can do such stupid things.