Cheney's Secret Energy Task Force Still a Secret
Our friends on the Supreme Court have come through for us again, fellow Billionaires: by a large margin, they've voted not to demand that Dick Cheney release the details of his secret energy task force meeting, which was attended by prominent energy magnates such as Ken Lay of Enron. The meeting resulted in many of Bush/Cheney's incredibly profitable, Billionaire-friendly environmental policies.

To be fair, most judges took a wishy-washy point of view and punted the issue back to a lower court. But pro-Billionaire justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas went the extra mile, writing that a federal court had "clearly exceeded" its authority by demanding the release of the task force records.

Scalia, as you remember, bravely refused to recuse himself from the case because he went on a duck-hunting trip with Cheney after the Court announced that it would hear Cheney's plea. At the time, Scalia wrote "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."

Hear, hear, Mr. Scalia. Buying Supreme Court justices, Vice Presidents, and other government officials is extraordinarily expensive (but well worth it)! If anything can be said of the mega-upper-classes, we're not stingy.

- posted by Colin A. Faver @ 11:31:41 AM