This past Saturday, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered Dick Cheney to preserve all vice presidential records--huzzah! Read more about the case below:

• news story about the case
• Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's memorandum opinion
• the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), who filed the lawsuit
• more about the Presidential Records Act

Thanks again to Rebecca Blakeley to alerting me about this story!

Despite a huge DOJ documents dump to the Committee on the Judiciary concerning the US Attorney firings, it's come to light that the White House is now abstaining from using the official White House email system. Crooks and Liars has more and points out that this subverts the Presidential Records Act which mandates thorough record-keeping, and ironically, as Josh Marshall has pointed out, means that much of this "official" communication can not be shielded by executive privilege. Read on...