The Company Scalia Kept

Justice Antonin Scalia died last month while on a hunting trip in Texas. He was participating in an outing organized by the International Order of St. Hubertus, a members-only hunting society that dates to the seventeenth century. The owner of the Cibolo Creek Ranch, the thirty-thousand-acre resort where the hunt took place, is John Poindexter, who told the Washington Post that he covered room and board for his thirty-five guests, including Scalia. (They reportedly paid for their own travel.) Because Poindexter runs an industrial company that had a case before the Supreme Court last year (the Justices declined to hear it), some have raised questions about the propriety of Scalia’s visit.