The Washington Post’s Christopher Lee reported yesterday that a federal district judge offered an injunction making the Bush administration’s Office of Vice-President (that would be headed by Dick Cheney) turn over all work-related correspondence of the past eight years to the National Archives. The injunction stems from a government watchdog group and a coterie of historians suing the VP’s office for possible violation of the Presidential Records Act. The post-Watergate law compels the president and vice-president to turn everything they did over to the National Archives when the administration ends.

There is not a specific instance of the notoriously secretive Cheney violating PRA that prompted the suit. But the lawsuit looks smart: Cheney’s lawyers have indeed given a definition of PRA that limits the scope of what the VP must fork over. So far District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly doesn’t seem to buying Cheney’s definition.-MB

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