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17 Apr 2009, 10:47 am by Tom Parker
Jay Bybee, John Yoo and Steven Bradbury knew they were ignoring decades of jurisprudence in drafting their memos. [read post]
14 Sep 2017, 6:38 am by Jon Levitan
Speakers include Allyson Ho, Jeffrey Lamken and Andrew Pincus; Judge Jay Stephens will serve as moderator. [read post]
8 May 2012, 3:27 am by Benjamin Wittes
A single Justice Department official reversed the recommendation of the department’s ethics office to refer Yoo and his boss, Jay Bybee, to their respective state bars for unethical behavior in writing the “torture memos. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 5:39 pm by John Steele
  In September 2001, terrorists carried out the multi-plane attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the fourth plane went down in Pennsylvania.In September 2001 - January 2002, the OLC issues a series of memoranda regarding the use of force and the Geneva Convention.In the Spring of 2002, Zubaydah and Jose Padilla were captured.In August 2002, the OLC issued two memos signed by Jay Bybee and largely written by John Yoo: a memo to the White House and a… [read post]
26 Jun 2008, 8:42 am
John states that his 2002 torture opinion was "reviewed, edited and re-written by the assistant attorney general in charge of the office at the time [Jay Bybee], as is the case with all opinions that issue from OLC. [read post]
5 Dec 2008, 10:34 am
Yoo could not be reached for comment, but he has been a source of controversy because of a 2002 memo he drafted that was signed by his boss, former Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee, providing the legal basis to justify torture in interrogating terrorism suspects. [read post]
20 Feb 2010, 8:55 am by pfriedman
Instead, the DOJ said that John Yoo [academic profile; JURIST news archive], and Jay Bybee [official profile; JURIST news archive] were only guilty of “poor judgment” in writing the memos. [read post]
10 Apr 2023, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
Bush administration lawyers such as John Yoo and Jay Bybee rationalizing and justifying torture. [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 4:14 pm
The Times said conservative circuit Judge Jay Bybee noted in the opinion that _____'s actions were more oversight than illegal and would not even be considered a crime in 11 states. [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 11:46 am by David
“It is hard to conceive of a more direct assault on the First Amendment than public officials ordering the immediate arrests of their critics,” Judge Jay Bybee wrote for the 11-judge panel. [read post]
15 Aug 2008, 2:14 pm
Here’s the NLJ story, and here’s the Ninth Circuit’s opinion by Judge Jay Bybee. [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 1:53 am by Holly Doremus
An odd judicial couple, conservative Jay Bybee (of torture memo fame) and liberal Stephen Reinhardt, have combined to issue an even odder Clean Water Act standing decision. [read post]
22 Sep 2009, 2:24 am
Indeed, recent calls for the removal of Circuit Judge Jay Bybee demonstrate the continuing allure of impeachment as judicial selection. [read post]
20 Apr 2009, 12:50 pm
But the point is that Obama cannot be allowed to think that disclosure of the memos and the wrecked reputations (and nothing more, perhaps) of John Yoo, Jay Bybee, Steven Bradbury, etc., constitute anything close to seriously "upholding our values" and engaging in the kind of leadership we need on this issue. [read post]
26 Mar 2009, 3:42 pm
Mark Danner has a remarkable article on the Bush administration’s torture policies in the current issue of the New York Review of Books. [read post]
20 Apr 2009, 1:53 pm
I spent a significant portion of this weekend reading the torture memos, one prepared in 2002 by Assistant Attorney General Jay S. [read post]
5 May 2009, 8:55 pm
Bybee, August 1, 2002.Kinda Sorta New Afterthought: Why "the waterboard? [read post]
12 Jul 2011, 1:48 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Such an investigation should also include examination of the roles played by National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and Attorney General John Ashcroft, as well as the lawyers who crafted the legal “justifications” for torture, including Alberto Gonzales (counsel to the president and later attorney general), Jay Bybee (head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)), John Rizzo (acting CIA general counsel), David Addington (counsel to… [read post]
25 Jul 2008, 8:44 pm
In part one memo concluded: that for an act to constitute torture…[p]hysical pain amounting to torture must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death… Commonly referred to as the Bybee Memos, they were drafted by current Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo and Jay Bybee (then head of the OLC and now a Federal Judge). [read post]
9 May 2018, 5:21 am by Guest Blogger
  Jay Bybee, who helped draft the legal opinions authorizing torture after 9/11, won Senate confirmation to an appellate judgeship on the Ninth Circuit, though the Senate acted before the details of Bybees involvement in the torture memos were fully known. [read post]