Leftist's reaction.......
Whats the count? 5-4? 6-3?
~smirk~
great news
Good, that was an extremely dangerous ruling and needed to be overturned.
You don't want to miss this.
Grand!
Leftist's reaction.......
Hooray for closed government!
FINALLY, some GOOD NEWS out of SCOTUS! With the rulings they have been handing down lately, this is indeed a breath of fresh air!
AP story via The Dallas Morning News .....
High court declines to order release of Cheney energy task force records09:28 AM CDT on Thursday, June 24, 2004
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court refused Thursday to order the Bush administration to make public secret details of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force, but kept the case alive by sending it back to a lower court.
Justices said 7-2 that a lower court should consider whether a federal open government law could be used to get documents of the task force.
The decision extends the legal fight over the information. Justices could have allowed a judge to immediately move ahead with ordering the release of the papers.
The issues in the case have been overshadowed by conflict-of-interest questions about one justice.
Justice Antonin Scalia had defiantly refused to step down from hearing the case involving Cheney, despite criticism that his impartiality has been brought into question because of a hunting vacation that he took with Cheney will the court was considering the vice president's appeal.
"Special considerations applicable to the president and the vice president suggest that the courts should be sensitive to requests by the government" in such special appeals, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority.
Shortly after taking office, President Bush put Cheney, a former energy industry executive, in charge of the task force which, after a series of private meetings in 2001, produced recommendations generally friendly to industry.
The Sierra Club, a liberal environmental club, and Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group, sued. They argued that the public has a right to information about committees like Cheney's. The organizations contended that environmentalists were shut out of the meetings, while executives like former Enron Corp. Chairman Kenneth Lay were key task force players.
The Bush administration argued that privacy is important for candid White House discussions on difficult issues. The high court did not specifically address that question, however.
The case had become a potentially embarrassing election-year problem for the administration.
Online at: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/062404dnnatenergytaskforce.2921ca3b7.html
Yep, the media will have a cow. The whine will be deafening.
I'm surprised at the ruling, and at the vote count (7-2).
Happily surprised.
Well this should set the liberals into a tizzy
The raw nerve of this blowhard "Jefferson" to imply we need an informed electorate!
Every good American knows we're supposed to be kept ignorant of what government does, and trust it'll keep our best interests first and foremost. After all, that's what this country was founded on!
I don't believe they argued "executive priviledge".
I believe they argued it was a "separation of powers" issue.
I think (but am not certain) there is a difference.
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Just the fact that Judicial Watch was involved was enough to see this coming... Now, had Judicial Watch sued Klayman's mother, they might have done a little better...
'Bout time the SC made a decision that followed law instaed of activism.
