Court Denies Libby Appeal

From Bloomberg:

Lewis “Scooter” Libby, an ex-aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, must go to prison while appealing his conviction for obstructing a CIA leak probe, a U.S. appeals court said.

Libby may be behind bars within weeks under the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which denied his request for release during his appeal. The decision will increase pressure on President George W. Bush to decide soon whether to pardon Libby, 56, as the former White House official’s supporters have urged.

It sounds like it wasn’t even close. The decision by the court was unanimous, the AP reports, while Reuters says “the appeals court turned down Libby in a one-paragraph order, ruling he has not shown that his appeal ‘raises a substantial question.'”