High court asked to reject Cheney on energy report

[UpInArms]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031031/fin_enr/cheney_1

WASHINGTON, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) should be forced to divulge information about his energy task force, a government watchdog group told the Supreme Court on Friday, arguing that his claim of immunity was laughable.

In papers filed with the top U.S. court, Judicial Watch, said Cheney should be made to comply with a lower court order to release information about the task force's contacts with the energy industry in 2001.

Cheney has made "repeated attempts to transform the actual issues ... into ones of urgent constitutional concern," lawyers for Judicial Watch said, but: "No such issues exist."

Cheney's claim to be immune from having to produce documents was "risible" after a 1997 Supreme Court decision that discovery could proceed against then-President Clinton (news - web sites) in a case brought by sexual-harrasment accuser Paula Jones, Judicial Watch said.

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(edited because I left out a word - didn't make sense :( )

[Nottingham]

1. Heres the ? is Supreme Court ....BUSH COURT

or they for Justice

:bounce:

[Cooley Hurd]

2. They've fought this tooth and nail...

They've been fighting this tooth and nail for a loooong time, so there HAS to be something to it...

[Liberal Veteran]

3. Everyone be sure to rate this article....

...I gave it a 5.

[Hotdiggitydog]

4. Ranked it a "5"

...bringing up the unanimous vote tally to 6 - "5"s.

[newyawker99]

11. Hi Hotdiggitydog!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[salin]

5. right

lets see - a situation - that was questionable (came up years after the claimed event - serious accusation, no doubt, but didn't implicate direct actions that violated public trust/actions in terms of governing) ... go forward. But if the questions raised, have to do with actions while in office - and the actions could have great, and direct harm to citizens/energy conumsers... we should ignore it. this is so messed up.

[dbt]

6. Memo to the Five Traitors:

Scalia
Rehnquist
Kennedy
O'Connor
(Uncle) Thomas,

This is the kind of shit that you wind up having to deal with when you overthrow the very Constitution that you swore to uphold. Get it?

you all
Deeply.
Severely.
Repeatedly.

Love, dbt

[BuckeFushe]

7. Priceless

many thanks to our friends at www.BushOnCrack.com

[Speed8098]

8. Cheney has guilt written all over him

Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck....must be a duck.

I like Cheech and Chongs version better.



Looks like dogshit......smells like dogshit.....tastes like dogshit......must be dogshit

And that, my friends, accurately describes Cheney....dogshit

[hang a left]

9. How this goes down, will be either the end of American

as we know it, or the beginning of the end for those fuckers.

[GalleryGod]

10. Sad to Say, the "Who Gets What In Iraq" Papers are all shredded

It wasn'r ENRON,boys and girls, they were divinding up Iraq in the first weeks of this Regime!

[Flubadubya]

12. "Risible..."

I like that word... it pretty much describes most GOPer's efforts and philosophies. :evilgrin: