| Date: | Tuesday December 16, @06:50PM |
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| Author: | ewing2001 |
| Topic: | News |
| from the WP/NY-Times dept. | |
December 17
The Washington Post reported that "the Federal Election Commission has determined that Attorney General John D. Ashcroft's unsuccessful 2000 Senate reelection campaign violated federal election laws by accepting $110,000 in illegal contributions from a committee Ashcroft had established to explore running for president."
Meanwhile, according to the NY Times, the United States Supreme Court said "that it would hear arguments from the Bush administration about why it should not be required to turn over information about Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force."
The administration is fighting a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group based in Washington, and the Sierra Club, which are trying to find out if Mr. Cheney's task force was influenced by participants from the energy industry who were also political allies of the administration.
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