Well, the Sierra Club is at least up front about their ambitions. Are these judges activists as well? Letting the big Dick off the hook....this man is very slippery, but not as slippery as Rove, I'm sure:
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit that sought details about Vice President Dick Cheney's 2001 energy policy task force that critics say secretly formed policy favorable to the industry.
The unanimous ruling ordered a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit by the Sierra Club environmental group and the watchdog group Judicial Watch that sought to learn about contacts between task force members and industry executives.
"We hold that plaintiffs have failed to establish any duty, let alone a clear and indisputable duty, owed to them by the federal government" under the law in question, the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Judge A. Raymond Randolph wrote in the 13-page ruling.All eight judges on the appeals court sided with the Bush administration and agreed the lawsuit must be dismissed.
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I'm no lawyer, but if the law is how the court stated it and if the administration fulfilled the requirements of the law, then the ruling was appropriate. No judicial activism here. Now if what happened was clearly against the law and they ruled in their favor anyway by, perhaps, siting a law from another country or just a reason of their own, than it would be a clear case of judicial activism.
Just because you disagree with a ruling doesn't make it judicial activism.
The activism question aside, it is a sad statement about America that such behavior is allowed. Secret meetings of plutocratic neocons, disguised as being in America's best interest, but actually a diabolical laying of plans to enrich a pack of energy-industry cronies. I would bet that they also hammered out the details to their conquest of the middle east. I wish I believed in Hell.
Government by government
If the people are unable to find out anything about their government, then the people are no longer soverign in their own country. Government ''of, by, and for the people'' is a sham. The executive is not elected to keep secrets from the people. An ignorant uniformed people cannot be reliably expected to govern themselves.
When the executive uses the law to disempower the people, the executive has to go.
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