In New Jersey, the Christie administration is learning the hard way about the power of open records laws. Reporters broke the “Bridgegate” story after initially obtaining government emails through a request for public records. These included the now infamous exchange between a Christie aide and a Christie political appointee agreeing that it was “time to create some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” which triggered days of commuter havoc there as payback against the mayor of Fort Lee.
Every lawyer dreams of finding such priceless proof of conspiracy. Now scandal may have crippled a front-runner for a presidential nomination and his opponents—legal and political—can exploit the resulting paralysis and harm to Gov. Chris Christie’s credibility. The simple act of sending a freedom of information request sparked this conflagration.
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