The Bush administration, (you know, the people that put CORRUPTION in the word corruption.), are siding with the Justice Department in their attempt to have the SCOTUS toss out a lower court ruling that, ultimately, will hinder investigations into corruption cases within Congress. Specifically, the request arrives from the FBI investigations of disgraced democrat, William Jefferson, of Louisiana.

Gives one pause, doesn’t it? I mean, what if the conservative-leaning, GOP-butt-licking SCOTUS sides with the lower court on this? For the aforementioned cases, and any new charges of corruption that might (or rather, probably will) arise in the near future, would these participants be more likely to “wriggle off the hook”? Something to ponder.

High court asked to review Congress raid

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to toss out a lower court ruling that says the FBI was wrong to raid Democratic Rep. William Jefferson’s office, a decision the Bush administration argues will hinder corruption investigations of Congress.

In an appeal filed this week, government lawyers said that only the nation’s highest court can decide whether the 18-hour raid was an unconstitutional breach of congressional authority or a proper tactic in a lengthy corruption inquiry.

“Only this court can resolve this important question,” the Justice Department wrote in its 28-page appeal, filed Wednesday. “Until it does so, investigations of corruption in the nation’s capital and elsewhere will be seriously and perhaps even fatally stymied.”