Supreme Court Hears Cheney Energy Task Force Case
Environment News Service, April, 2004 by J.R. Pegg
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) — The U.S. Supreme Court today will hear oral arguments on whether Vice President Dick Cheney must release internal documents detailing what role energy industry lobbyists and officials played in the work of the White House energy task force. The merits of the case have been somewhat overshadowed by concerns about the impartiality of Justice Antonin Scalia, but at issue is a fundamental pillar of the U.S. government - the separation of powers.
The case centers on a task force - officially known as the National Energy Policy Development Group - created by President George W. Bush shortly after he took office in January 2001.
The mission of the group, which was chaired by Cheney, was to "develop a national energy policy designed to help the private...
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