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12 Dec 2011, 7:24 pm by Rick Hills
Jay Bybee's 2002 OLC memo defending an "inherent" right of the states to enforce federal immigration laws is the apotheosis of this extraordinary reversal of McCulloch's presumption that "on [federal] means alone was [the federal government] expected to rely for the accomplishment of its ends. [read post]
25 Oct 2011, 5:44 am
-based law firm gives more than $3.2 million in services to help appeals judge's defense; Jay Bybee, who is on the 9th Circuit bench, has fought allegations of ethics violations for providing legal justification for waterboarding; Much of the money for his defense comes from Latham & Watkins": Carol J. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 1:34 pm by David Kravets
Jay Bybee, now a member of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 8:45 am by Joe Palazzolo
The National Law Journal’s David Ingram reports that from 2007 to 2010 Ninth Circuit Judge Jay Bybee accepted legal and consulting help totaling $3.4 million, as he fought allegations that as head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel he blessed sloppy legal analysis that led to the so-called “torture memos. [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 4:54 am by SHG
The problem, as Turley argues, is that it's not particularly likely that cert was granted for the majority of the court to sing hosannas in support of the circuit's opinion, with Jay Bybee, "a man accused of falsely bending the law to justify torture," dissenting.It seems unlikely that the justices voting to accept the case did so simply to amplify the views of the Ninth Circuit – the most often reversed circuit in the country. [read post]
10 Oct 2011, 2:22 pm by Bill Otis
Kent was crass enough to point out that those all ready to condemn George Bush (and Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Jay Bybee, John Yoo, etc., et al) as war criminals seem to have lost their voices now that President Obama not only captures and intrerrogates al Qaeda operatives, but kills them on the spot. [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 11:07 am by Jonathan Zasloff
  Famed torture-defender and right-wing poster boy Jay Bybee. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 6:44 am by Tom Parker
Interestingly enough, neither John Yoo nor Jay Bybee rates a mention in Cheney’s memoirs. [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 8:58 am by Lovechilde
In 2009-2010, the critical accessory to Summers’s power was Timothy Geithner, Obama’s treasury secretary. [read post]
13 Aug 2011, 7:13 am by Steve Kalar
Judge Berzon’s "dissent" (one vote shy), is a masterpiece that – shall we say, “takes issue” – with Judge Bybees majority view. [read post]
5 Aug 2011, 10:10 pm by Robert Thomas (inversecondemnation.com)
But here's one that's worth reviewing on your own, if only because it was authored by Judge Jay Bybee, who is becoming quite the takings maven on the Ninth Circuit. [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 2:48 pm by Lovechilde
" HRW also recommends investigating former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Attorney General John Ashcroft, 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 the vice president), William J. [read post]
19 Jul 2011, 12:19 am by John Steele
This phenomenon is illustrated by the so-called “torture memos” in which John Yoo and Jay Bybee sanctioned coercive interrogation tactics that many regard as torture. [read post]
14 Jul 2011, 9:48 pm by Rick Hills
This position was asserted in a memo authored by Jay Bybee back in 2002, but Arizona has taken the Bybee position one step further: They claim the right to enforce the INA even when the President of the United States vehemently rejects their proffered assistance. [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]
12 Jul 2011, 12:24 pm by Roderick Hills - Guest
Arizona and its amici repeatedly have invoked the idea that states have inherent power to enforce federal immigration law, an idea most controversially associated with an OLC memo written by Jay Bybee in 2002. [read post]