File this one under the "What the Fuck?" heading...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney took the unusual step Friday of joining with lawmakers in signing a Supreme Court brief that goes further in support of gun rights than the one submitted by the Bush administration.
I'll type this slowly...the Bush Administration submitted a brief to the Court on the D.C. gun ban case, and a bunch of Republican Senators and Congressmen submitted an amicus brief asking the Court to go further than what the Administration asked for, and Cheney signed onto that one.
Lawyers with long experience at the court could not recall another case in which a vice president took a position different from that of his own administration.
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