April 29, 2004

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  Scalia Visible As Ever for Cheney Argument

  
  

   

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  Tue Apr 27, 5:55 PM ET

  
  

  By ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press Writer
  

  WASHINGTON - Justice Antonin Scalia  was every bit his usual blunt and confrontational self in Tuesday's Supreme Court argument involving his old friend and hunting partner, Vice President Dick Cheney.
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  Outside interest groups want access to records of Cheney's energy task force and won a lower court order to force the White House to turn them over.
  

  "I think executive privilege means whenever the president feels that he is threatened, he can simply refuse to comply with a court order," Scalia matter-of-factly told a lawyer for the Sierra Club.
  

  
  

  He said nothing about his realtionship with Cheney

  
  

   

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