The Supreme Court refused Thursday to order the Bush administration to make public secret details of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force, but kept the case alive by sending it back to a lower court.

Cliff Sloan, General Counsel of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive discusses Thursday's decision. Sloan is a former clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens and has argued several cases before the Supreme Court.

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