Justice Antonin Scalia openly and brazenly siding with Cheny

[MSgt213]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court appeared troubled Tuesday by the prospect of letting the public have a look into private White House policy meetings, a hopeful sign for the Bush administration's aggressive defense of secrecy in the case of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force.

The court is the latest stop in a nearly three-year fight over access to records of the task force that prepared a national energy strategy. The president put Cheney, a former energy industry executive, in charge and the group's recommendations were friendly to industries. Most stalled in Congress.

Raising the gravest concerns about unnecessary snooping into the executive branch was Justice Antonin Scalia, who stayed in the case despite conflict-of-interest questions relating to his friendship with Cheney. He said a president has broad authority to keep matters private.

"He has the power as an independent branch to say, 'No, this intrudes too much upon my powers. I will not do it,'" Scalia said.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040427/D827DRJG0.html

[efhmc]

1. Are we supposed to be surprised?

[Walt Starr]

2. Scalia is violating the law. IMPEACH HIS ASS!!

He has a demonstrated bias in the case and this is a defnite impropriety!

The fucker deserves prison!

[knight_of_the_star]

3. He should be disbarred and impeached at the least!

Judicial bias coupled with total disregard for the law is just plain WRONG! Sorry Tony, get the hell OFF the bench!

[Hornito]

7. He deserves worse than prison. He is a traitor to this nation,

and as such, deserves the most severe punishment for his treason, allowed under the law. I say he should swing.

[spanone]

4. This is why cheney took it straight to the supreme court.

He had no hope in the lower courts where it should have played out.

[Liberal Veteran]

5. So let me see if I understand this....

Antonin "Fat Tony" Scalia believes the government, which is of the people and by the people and for the people, is entitled to privacy.

But the PEOPLE, under the Patriot Act, have no constitutional right to privacy and are subject to library record searches, book purchase record searches, and "sneak and peek" searches?

What the fucking fuck?

[MSgt213]

6. Look I can buy the executive privy law when it applies to government

officials, aids and advisors talking directly with the President. I cannot buy having private citizens having a meeting with the Vice President and discussing stuff that concerns the American people at large and being able to keep what was discussed private.

[BlueEyedSon]

8. "Quack, quack!"

[Benhurst]

9. Fat Tony is such a disappointment. n/t

[Old and In the Way]

10. Because he knows the plans to invade and occupy Iraq are

what the secret energy meetings are all about. Since when does energy policy need to be a state secret? When the policy shows an illegal, undemocratic, and un-American plan to steal another country's resources.

[Disturbed]

11. J. Kerry

J. Kerry and the Dems should stop defending against petty Bushite attacks and start demanding justice for the American people. This issue is a place to start!!!!

[Snoggera]

12. He has nothing to be concerned about until

Kerry wins the election and at least one of his buddies retires. It can get lonely being a Supreme Court Justice when you have shown your contempt for the constitution.