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21 Feb 2010, 6:59 am
At the Legal Ethics Forum, John Steele has an incredibly useful post rounding up links to documents and commentary related to the Justice Department’s OPR report on the “torture memos” and AAG David Margolis’ memo, including drafts of the OPR report, responses from John Yoo and Jay Bybee’s lawyers and then-AG Michael Mukasey, and loads of blog commentary. [read post]
20 Feb 2010, 2:20 pm
David Margolis to not refer John Yoo to the bar for disciplinary proceedings can in no way be read as a vindication of his conduct. [read post]
20 Feb 2010, 9:36 am
The Report of the Office of Professional Responsibility dated July 2009 is here, and the memo of Associate Deputy Attorney General David Margolis rejecting key findings of the OPR Report, dated January 2010, is here. [read post]
20 Feb 2010, 8:55 am
However, David Margolis, an associate deputy attorney general, released a separate memo [DOJ Margolis Report] overruling the OPR’s report, finding its analysis was flawed because it did not have a clear definition of what constitutes professional misconduct. [read post]
20 Feb 2010, 7:17 am
That report was among the documents made public yesterday.But David Margolis, a career lawyer at the Justice Department, rejected that conclusion in a report of his own released yesterday. [read post]
20 Feb 2010, 2:12 am
But this recommendation (which was not officially made until December 2008), has been soundly and completely rejected by David Margolis, the Associate Deputy Attorney General empowered by the DOJ to decide whether to accept the OPR recommendations. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 6:05 pm
John Yoo's and Jay Bybee's memoranda as lawyers in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel providing the legal basis for certain interrogation techniques--the torture memos--were "flawed," but reflected no professional misconduct, according to a memo released today from David... [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 5:39 pm
David Luban has thoughts here. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 4:46 pm
Upon reviewing the OPR's report and recommendations, Associate Deputy Attorney General David Margolis concluded in a 69 page memo that the DOJ should release the Office of Professional Responsibility report for public review but that the Justice Department would not refer a finding of misconduct to state and local bar committees where Yoo and Bybee are members.In deciding not to refer charges to state bar committees, Margolis does not tell us that Yoo and Bybee… [read post]
3 Feb 2010, 4:53 pm
David Margolis, a career civil servant who served in the Justice Department throughout the Bush administration, has reportedly downgraded criticism that Yoo and Bybee violated their professional obligations concluding rather that they merely exercised poor judgment. [read post]
1 Feb 2010, 5:37 pm
Rather, the report concluded that Bybee and Yoo exercised “poor judgment. [read post]
30 Jan 2010, 12:08 pm
For Bybee, such a referral could have also led to an impeachment inquiry before Congress. [read post]
30 Jan 2010, 10:14 am
But the reviewer, career veteran David Margolis, downgraded that assessment to say they showed "poor judgment," say the sources. [read post]
30 Jan 2010, 10:10 am
But the reviewer, career veteran David Margolis, downgraded that assessment to say they showed "poor judgment," say the sources. [read post]
2 Dec 2009, 11:45 am
Jay Bybee-District of Columbia Bar Microsoft Word (.doc) Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) Douglas Feith-District of Columbia Bar Microsoft Word (.doc) Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) David Addington-District of Columbia Bar Microsoft Word (.doc) Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) Stephen Bradbury-District of Columbia Microsoft Word (.doc) Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) Michael Chertoff-District of Columbia Microsoft Word (.doc) Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) John Ashcroft-District of Columbia Microsoft Word (.doc) Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)… [read post]
17 Nov 2009, 12:41 am
Jay Bybee, the author of the infamous legal memorandums justifying the use of torture, is now a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. [read post]
9 Oct 2009, 8:42 am
Last weekend, in addition to a brief stopover at a conference at some college in New Haven, I participated in a conference at Amherst College titled "Prosecuting Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld: What Does the Rule of Law Require? [read post]
1 Oct 2009, 2:45 pm
The majority opinion, by Judge Bybee, addressed and analyzed a wide range of takings issues, including: Standing: The court held that the plaintiffs had standing to raise the facial challenge, even though they had purchased the mobile home park long after it was subject to the County’s mobile home rent control. [read post]
1 Oct 2009, 3:31 am
Bybee, Assistant Atty. [read post]
17 Sep 2009, 4:49 pm
In the NYRB article "The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers," David Cole (Georgetown) provides a brief rehearsal of the major arguments, legal authorities, and chronologies surrounding the attorneys Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Daniel Levin, and Steven Bradbury, the... [read post]
