(CNSNews.com) –- A three-judge federal appeals panel in Washington has overturned a lower court ruling that allowed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to withhold documents from the public regarding its Fast and Furious gun-running scandal.
Senior Circuit Judge Douglas Ginsburg, who wrote the February 12 ruling, cited a prior case which found that "the test for determining whether an agency has improperly withheld records placed under seal by a court is 'whether the seal, like an injunction, prohibits the agency from disclosing the records'."
WASHINGTON – Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren lit up her social media accounts over the holiday weekend, adding to the powderkeg of partisanship that has defined the aftermath of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's sudden death in Texas on Saturday.
The state's senior senator was apparently reacting to statements by Kentucky's Mitch McConnell, the Senate's Republican leader, who on Saturday declared about replacing Scalia on the high court: "This vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president." McConnell cited the need to give Americans "a voice in the selection."
