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Lots of legal experts greeted the Valerie Plame lawsuit against Vice President Cheney and White House senior officials Karl Rove and I. Lewis Libby with skepticism, largely because it will have to overcome an almost certain argument that Cheney and company are, as federal officials, immune to being sued for...
The general idea of executive immunity is that White House officials should be free to do their jobs without worrying about getting sued for any missteps, and without having to spend time defending themselves rather than serving the public. The key here is ?do their jobs,? and while dalliances with...
The Supreme Court has ruled that Presidents have immunity and that cabinet officers have ?qualified immunity,? meaning that they cannot be sued unless, for example, they violated someone?s constitutional rights and had a pretty good idea they were doing so. That leaves open the question of whether Vice Presidents...
The cultural shift away from government employment has been even harder to change. While the private sector has boasted of its commitment to quality and efficiency, the public sector still has a reputation branded by that notorious phrase, "good enough for government work." So the Best and the Brightest believe...
As first dates go, this one wasn't terribly original: dinner and a movie, followed by a lot of time in a parked car. The two teenagers, who in mid-May chowed down at a Whataburger in Austin, Texas, before going to see Mission: Impossible III, certainly weren't the...