Court favors Cheney in suit over public records
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A federal district court judge has ruled that outgoing Vice President Dick Cheney, who leaves office on Tuesday with an approval rating of just 13 percent, will be the sole determining authority on the public release of his vice presidential records.
The ruling cuts out National Archive oversight in the release of Cheney's records. Judge Kollar-Kotelly, appointed in 1997 by President Clinton, seems to have a history of siding with the Bush administration in legal battles, though she rejected the extraordinary claim that detainees in Bush's terror war are not entitled to lawyers.
The assertion that Cheney alone may determine what is historically significant is based on his 2007 claim, over objections from the National Archives, that the vice president is not actually part of the executive branch.