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 (search), 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.
Not quite as good as it originally sounded...
Hillary was not part of the Executive Branch of the Gov't - she was neither elected nor appointed.
I love that last sentence. At least they don't mention Scalia without mentioning that the c-of-i questions are stupid.