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Torture and the Problem of Constitutional Evil: The Way Forward

Howard Schweber | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Lawyers, War on Terror, Graber, Impeachment, Yoo, Rule of Law, Truth Commission, Executive Authority, Noonan, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Evil, Addington, Prosecutions, Bybee, Constitution, Torture, Politics News
Howard Schweber

I have no hesitation in asserting that Judge Bybee should be subjected to impeachment proceedings, and that Bybee, Yoo, Addington et al. should face disbarment proceedings.

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Bush Torture Memo Author Yoo Gets New Gig

Overruled | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics

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Academic freedom is very important. Universities exist to produce knowledge, unconstrained by political winds or the whims of wealthy donors. If pro...

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Obama Lawyers Set To Defend Bush 'Torture Memo' Author In Court

Politico | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, Jose Padilha, Bush Administration Torture, Bush Administration, Obama Lawyers, Disclosure of Yoo Memo, Yoo, Jose Padilla, Donald Rumsfeld, John Yoo, Jose Padilla 17 Years Sentence, Jose Padilla Prison, John Yoo Memo, John Yoo Torture, Politics News

In Democratic legal circles, no attorney has been more pilloried than former Bush Justice Department official John Yoo, chief author of the so-called ...

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No Choice But to Prosecute Cheney, for the Good of the Country

Paul Abrams | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics

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Paul Abrams

With his admission on television to having authorized waterboarding, Dick Cheney will not be able to travel outside the United States without fearing arrest as a war criminal.

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Friday Talking Points [48] -- Throwing Out The Rulebook

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...

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