High Court to Hear Cheney-Energy Dispute

[Whoa_Nelly]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court said Monday it will settle a fight over whether Vice President Dick Cheney must disclose details about secret contacts with energy industry officials as the Bush administration drafted its energy policy.

The court agreed to hear an appeal from the administration, which is fighting a lawsuit brought by watchdog and environmental groups over the energy task force Cheney assembled. The panel met for several months in 2001 and issued a report that favored opening more public lands to oil and gas drilling and proposed a range of other steps supported by industry.

The lawsuit seeks to force the administration to provide details about the panel's records and inner workings. The groups allege the industry representatives in effect functioned as members of the government panel, which included Cabinet secretaries and lower-level administration employees.

The watchdog group Judicial Watch and an environmental organization, the Sierra Club, had won permission from a lower court to gather records related to the energy task force.

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[Born_a_Democrat]

1. Like they're going to force Bushco to reveal anything

pfftt!!

[KoKo]

2. They won't hear it until next July! Almost 4 years they've stonewalled if

they wait that long! This is truly bad. Someone needs to leak it early. Someone must have the papers on this. A lower level employee who was privy to the meetings note, or who drafted comments.

Well, we can wish. Look at what they did to Clinton. Look at Paula Jones. And the press coverage and the call for the Supreme Court to allow her to prosecute. That took a long time, also, but we heard about it every day, a drumbeat on the pundit shows.

This is a matter of our Country's integrity and they drag their feet and it gets no public outcry and no mention by the Pundits. It's disgusting.

I imagine Ted Olson will be arguing for the Govt. and since he's a "Favorite" of the Court since he argued for the Selection, I think our hopes are dashed for a favorable ruling on this.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Ted Olson is the lawyer for Cheney's side?

Isn't that called pro se?

[Qutzupalotl]

7. Timing sounds good for us, actually.

Shortly before the election, the public will have the "Cheney is a crook" meme fresh in their minds.

Now if only we could bump up the Plamegate investigation...

[Melinda]

4. Arguably one of the most important threads today....

Deserves better than to languish in the archives :kick:

[Kolesar]

5. Justice Delayed.....eom

[tom_paine]

6. The fix is in

Cheney walks. We Imperial Subjects of Amerika were never meant to know what our Rulers are up to.