Well liberals pretty much have to accept this ruling since they swore by the courts in Florida only a month ago - or will they?
WASHINGTON -- A U.S. appeals court threw out a lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney today and ruled that he was free to meet in secret with energy industry lobbyists while drawing up President Bush's energy policy.
The president and vice president have no duty to tell the public when they seek advice from outsiders, the appeals court said.
"In making decisions on personnel and policy, and in formulating legislative proposals, the president must be free to seek confidential information from many sources, both inside the government and outside," said Judge Ray Randolph in an opinion for the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Therefore, the Sierra Club and Judicial Watch had no legal right to demand to know who met with Cheney's energy policy task force in 2001, the court said.
The ruling all but ends a four-year-old legal battle over Cheney's task force, one that drew in the Supreme Court and Justice Antonin Scalia.
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