A federal judge has ruled that the lawsuit trying to force Bush-Cheney to list who they met with when crafting the administration’s “energy policy” can go forward. The judge found a pattern of deception in the administration’s arguments to the court that can’t be explained by mere incompetence. According to the article by the Environmental News Service:

In his opinion, Judge Sullivan wrote that Cheney and his co-defendants were seeking a ruling from him that “would eviscerate the understanding of checks and balances between the three branches of government on which our constitutional order depends.”

The judge chastised the Justice Department lawyers for attempting to mislead the court, writing that, “the fact that the government has stubbornly refused to acknowledge the existing controlling law in at least two cases, does not strike this Court as a coincidence. One or two isolated mis-citations or misleading interpretations of precedent are forgivable mistakes of busy counsel, but a consistent pattern of misconstruing precedent presents a much more serious concern.”

[Thanks to Gary Unblinking Stock for pointing me to this.]

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