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Politics : Politics of Supreme Court Nominations
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To: CYBERKEN who wrote (195)8/3/2005 9:18:54 PM
From: ChinuSFO  Read Replies (2) of 292
 
This is not politics. This is the goddamn truth. Tempest brewing for the White House

...Apparently reminded that Ken Starr, as independent counsel, pretty much made a nullity of that privilege for government attorneys, the White House later said that some documents would be made available, but not all.

In support of its position, it cited as precedent the rules that had governed the hearings of past government attorneys who have been nominated for the high bench (William Rehnquist, Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia).

The problem is, it turns out that existing precedent -- in particular, precedent from the Bork hearings, the more recent of the three -- cuts the wrong way for the White House...

..read the entire article at cnn.com
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