Well, whaddya know? SCOTUS skeptical. Quack Quack

[kskiska]

From Drudge:
Supreme Court appears skeptical of letting the public have a look into private White House policy meetings, hearing a challenge to privacy claims for the vice president's energy task force. Justice Antonin Scalia warns about opening presidents to snooping outsiders and worrisome lawsuits... Developing...

[BOSSHOG]

1. Tony the fixer would also not want us to know the identity

of the republican piece of shit who outed a cia operative. But he's fine with declassifying anything that would make a political "enemy" look bad in the eyes of the lemmings. "Snooping outsiders?" Ken Starr and pals come to mind. Obviously cheney's springing for a duck hunt in Louisiana is paying off. Sure don't want snooping outsiders, like the American Public, knowing about the complicity of the task force and the reason we went to war. scalia's legacy will be tied to bush and both will go down in history as scum.

[napi21]

2. There's no decision yet. Let's wait and see.

Scalia isn't the only judge on the SCOTUS. I'm thinking at least some of them might be having bad memories of the Bush V Gore decision.

[tom_paine]

3. Yeh. We'll wait and see

But if you are waiting for the Felonious Five who make up the Judicial Arm of the Imperial Coup to behave honestly. You have a long wait.

[napi21]

6. Still think they hid for quite a while after the Bush V Gore decision.

I think they're looking for redemption. Remember ego and all.

[aldebaran]

11. There will not be a repeat of bush v Gore here

After all this business with recusal, there's no way the Court will let Scalia be the deciding vote. There will be a defector from one side or the other. In other words, it will be 5-3, not 4-4 with the remaining eight.

[Timefortruth]

12. Don't forget that Scalia has two votes, which does make him

the most powerful member of the court.

[charlie]

13. Heh. True dat.

:)

[beyurslf]

4. I would hardly say Scalia is representitive of the Court overall.

I think we all knew what side he would be on. I am more interested in some of the others.

[charlie]

5. "Worrisome lawsuits"

*SNORT* That scaley fuck had no problem letting Paula Jones sue and depose Clinton. Must be nice to have your own bagman cum caporegime sitting on the high court.

[callous taoboy]

7. What Charlie said

.

[loudsue]

8. The timing of this case, and the slaughter in Falluja, are interesting.

Who's going to pay attention to the Cheney papers when we have this HUGE SLAUGHTER of Iraqis going on?

Guess what the Supremes are going to do for dickie boy? You guessed it! They're going to let him keep his "secrets".....while everyone's looking at the blood-letting in Iraq.

I'm calling my reps. This is an outrage. Scalia needs to be impeached for not recusing himself. Bush needs to be impeached for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

:kick:

[Timefortruth]

14. Huge slaughter of Iraqis?

Since when does the media care about dead Iraqis? Hell dead soldiers barely get any press, and they are treated generally as more human than dead Iraqis.

That said, maybe there has been a shift in coverage since I haven't tuned in lately.. Who knows?

[robbedvoter]

9. What was that juicy Scalia vote: "To think that a judge can be bought...

is so cynical..."

[sundancekid]

15. worse yet, dear robbed

that arrogant SCROTUS, er, SCOTUS member actually had the nerve to focus more on the notion of "so cheap" rather than the notion of being bought at all (ugh!)
... the exact quote from the WaPo article is:

"If it is reasonable to think that a Supreme Court justice can be bought so cheap, the nation is in deeper trouble than I had imagined," Scalia wrote in rejecting the Sierra Club's request that he disqualify himself.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45569-2004Apr27_2.html
:puke:

[damnraddem]

10. Yeah, allow that and the next thing you know, a bunch of pols will want ..

to nose into presidential sexual conduct in the Oral, er, Oval Office!

No president should have to stand for that! (But sitting for it is optional.)