I do not think that him and Epstein ran in the same circles.
Its probably the whole adopted children thing. He was a judge, why go overseas to adopt? Of course circumventing the laws provided leverage which made him more attractive as a SCJ candidate.
We won’t ever be able to have anything but suspicion regarding Scalia’s death. No autopsy, signed off on by a Justice of the Peace? Please!
Would have been good if his Mrs. when with him.
In the pantheon of evil despicable things skirting the law or stretching it to adopt kids is ranking up there with dropped off your record speeding tickets and $25 college public intoxication fines.
It’s beyond my reasoned thinking to imagine that Roberts would compromise the Republic and whatever legacy a Chief Justice would have over keeping a lid on that. He’s under the gun for something WAY worse than that, the kind of stuff that earns being chased by a pack of red scarves or lingering over a bottle of 25+ YO Macallan preparing to play 100% full chambers roulette...
The answer is because the law makes adopting children in the US difficult.
Few babies available.
No cross racial adoption.
Lesbian social workers doing your home evaluation might turn you down for being a Christian, saying you are too “ rigid”.
Older children often have emotional or sexual abuse. And since social workers keep sending them back to their druggie moms over and over and then remove them when mom relapses, and they bounce from foster home to foster home, they often have behavioral problems and can't form attachment to you.
The behavior can be terrible, but adoprive parents mainly don't discuss it with strangers, and luckily most kids outgrow their acting out and do well.
True, adopting from overseas doesn't eliminate such problems, but adopting a young child means probably fewer of these problems...and adopting a younger child from overseas is easier than adopting one from the US folks go overseas.
To adopt requires a home study. True, private adoptions might not. But adopting from overseas does.
Some get around this by paying a surrogate mother in a poor country to have the man's baby, and then he gets custody.
Informal adoption is common in some areas...including neglected children who are taken in by neighbors or relatives informally, without legal intervention. This includes family caring for a teenager who is pregnant and raising her and her baby until she is old enough to make it on her own.
This doesn't include the one million children in the US who are raised completely by relatives, often grandparents, because mom was too young, immature, or nowadays alas because she is a druggie.
“ why go overseas to adopt
1. Avoid entanglements with bio family
2. Avoid domestic legal liabilities
3. Avoid a corrupt/liberal social worker system
4. Faster
5. Millions of orphans who have a worse set of circumstances in their lives than our US citizens have
6. Some affinity with that country