our president upon being summons and supeanas for
certian infomation on the firings of the procecutors
and the comuting of scooter lewis's sentence has
claimed "executive priviledge" and is refusing to give
congress the documents demanded. 
 
without getting into the motives or merits of the
demands for information, i'll just state that i do not
think the courts are going to rule in congresses favor
on this one becouse of separation of powers of the
three branches of government. 

however here is an interesting aspect. as a strict
constitutionalist, i thing that vice president dick
cheney might could be required to give his information
on these subjects. regardles of what the duties of the
VP has evolved into; constitutioanlly he is "president
of the senate." there would be a constitutional
arguement that as such he is in the legislative branch
and therefore cannot claim executive priviledge. the
congress might very well be able to demand and get any
info that cheney has. it might pass muster in the
court. i do not know. 

just throwing this out for those interested in this
sort of thing.  



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