Cheney Seeking Supreme Court Review of Energy Panel Case

[radfringe]

Cheney Seeking Supreme Court Review of Energy Panel Case
Wednesday, September 17, 2003; Page A04

Vice President Cheney will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to avoid being forced to produce information about his energy task force to two public activist groups.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed court papers yesterday saying it will seek to have the nation's highest court hear its appeal of -- and overturn -- a lower court's order that the government turn over documents and information about the members and operations of the task force. The chances of the Supreme Court granting the petition for hearing are considered very slim.

Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia Circuit rejected the government's request for the full court to hear its appeal, signaling the court saw little merit in the government's case.

[emad]

1. Cheney is toast.

Best bet is he'll announce next month he'll be stepping down as VP and will be replaced by Powell in the 2004 running

[monobrau]

13. Toast?

You mean like how Reagan/Bush I were toast after it was revealed that they were dealing with terrorists and conducting a secret war in South America?
That's the way things should work, but I'm not holding my breath waiting for justice to be served.
The sheeple would rather be lied to than know the truth.

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16. Your post reminds me of a line by...

Pascal (I think):

"If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you.
If you REALLY make them think, they will hate you."

[stickdog]

2. Bush Administration finds a new way to waste taxpayer money to support

their favorite pasttime -- covering their asses.

[0007]

3. Like a cock-a-roache

running out of places to hide and soon will be exposed to bright light.

The Supreme Court wouldn't dare, would they?

[RC]

4. Yeah, they just might be having a guilty conscience and feeling

they have to atone for their sins of 2000.

[loyalsister]

6. No way

I'm very sure that they have had to have had enough of meddling in the executive branch. There is no way that they're going to want to have to take the blame for anything else that has anything to do with those idiots in the WH.
I think they'll make him suck it up. They went out of their way to get him the job in the first place. He should be able to do it just the way everyone has in the past. Sorry Chenney, it's a public office. You're not entitled to the same kind of privacy as when you worked in the private sector. You wanted it enough to go to the SC, you got it, get used to it.

[LeftHander]

7. Evil Dick

Key to democracy is openess and accountability. Otherwise you have an administration ripe with corruption. If Dick's energy planning included plans for profiteering from war. Then it is clear that he is incompetent if not criminal in his execution of job as VP.

He has undermined the office entrusted to him by the american people (Supreme Court and Jim Baker)

[Triana]

5. Tricky Dick II...

...what a Pr*ck. I'd love to smack that smirking, arrogant jackass upside the head. If ever there was a PICTURE of arrogance, Cheney is IT.

Now, what do you suppose little trickydick II has to hide, eh? Methinks he doth protest TOO MUCH. Americans have a right to know what is in those documents - EVERY letter, EVERY word, EVERY company involved. They don't BELONG to Dick, they belong to US!

[lindashaw]

8. We can thank JudicialWatch for this because the GAO gave up.

[Bandit]

9. Not just Judicial Watch but Sierra Club as well.

If it was just Judicial Watch we wouldn't have heard a word about this.

[AndyTiedye]

18. Supremes Will Rule For Cheney

We can assume that the stuff is really, really bad, and would bring down the administration.

The Supreme Court will do anything it takes to prevent that.

They will make up some Republican-only executive privilege for the occasion.

The Supreme Court need not care what the people think of it.
They are not answerable to the people. There is no chance of
any of the right-wing justices being impeached.

[rucky]

11. Don't Blame GAO

Congress funds the GAO, and they were pressured to give up b/c their funding was attached to a huge package that was on the chopping block. GAO does not have the resources to take the case all the way, and if they lost in court it would've set a damaging precedent that would greatly hamper their ability to be effective in the future.

Blame the Rethugs. GAO is one of the few branches of government that still wear the white hats.

[Terran]

10. Wow, such a drastic measure

for such a simple request. Make ya wonder why he's soooo concerned about this matter.

[chiburb]

12. Maybe because the energy companies...

Spent these meetings with Cheney divvying-up Afghanistan (pipeline) and Iraq (oil fields)well before 9/11/01 ?
This mis-administration has me convinced that NOTHING is tinfoil hat anymore...

[UTUSN]

15. Yeppers, Here We Go with SCotUS

We will have reached the empire if ever SCotUS rules AGAINST the Shrub string-pullers' cabal and the cabal DEFIES them.

[Raster]

14. i know there is no god because...

if there were, the black fucking heart in chenney's chest would have long exploded into a thousand points of light!

[ignatius]

17. Now why on earth would they get those much hated attorneys

involved.

Just as in 2000, they turn to the courts who they supposedly hold in great disdain, of course that's only if Joe Blow might be getting a few bucks out of some malfeasance.

It becomes even more obvious that there is something(a divison of the oil spoils after an Iraqi war perhaps?) in those super secret meetings.