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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 Bybee’s involvement in the torture memos were fully known. [read post]
15 May 2009, 8:03 am
But the “reasonable people” on the jury that may try John Yoo or Jay Bybee would have an different task: to determine guilt. [read post]
31 May 2007, 1:25 am
Socrates himself was (among other things) a moral teacher, who inspired his students to question received moral wisdom.Zelikow has things exactly backwards when he taxes the legal profession with the moral blindness of Alberto Gonzales, Jay Bybee and John Yoo. [read post]
9 Apr 2008, 11:05 am
John Bolton and Richard Perle may like to think - or like us to think - that international law is irrelevant to the US administration, but John Yoo and Jay Bybee know better. [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 3:02 pm by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
You know, the internal Justice Department watchdog report that criticizes the work of former Office of Legal Counsel lawyers and torture memo authors John Yoo, Steven Bradbury and Jay Bybee? [read post]
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]
1 Apr 2013, 9:35 pm by Benjamin Wittes
For example, Marcy makes a big deal of Fredman’s supposed failure to rely on the August 1 OLC torture memo and his reliance instead on a fax sent some weeks earlier by John Yoo for a key reading of the torture statute: when Fredman wrote the Abu Zubaydah torture team, translating DOJ’s guidance, he did not rely on the authoritative memos approved by Jay Bybee. [read post]
9 Mar 2009, 6:36 am
  The report is allegedly critical of the actions of three lawyers -- John Yoo, Jay Bybee, and Steven Bradbury. [read post]
1 Nov 2019, 8:40 pm by Ilya Somin
Bush appointee, and joined by fellow Bush appointee Judge Jay Bybee, often considered one of the most conservative judges sitting on any federal appellate court. [read post]
16 May 2008, 3:50 am
According to Sands, four other Government lawyers played a key role in its development: Douglas Feith, then an undersecretary of Defense; Jay Bybee and John Yoo, former Justice officials who co-authored a controversial August 2002 opinion on interrogation procedures; and David Addington, then-counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney. [read post]
25 Aug 2009, 7:18 pm
" More important, the scope of the "review" is limited at the outsetto those who failed to "act in good faith and within the scope of legal guidance" -- meaning only those interrogators and other officials who exceeded the torture limits which John Yoo and Jay Bybee approved. [read post]
27 Mar 2017, 7:15 am
Indeed, the few judges who have suggested that the ban might survive judicial review have largely declined, in the words of Ninth Circuit Judge Jay Bybee, to look “behind the curtain” of the executive order itself. [read post]
29 Mar 2009, 10:00 am
Jay Bybee probably has a better claim to being de facto out of the loop on the torture memo than Ms. [read post]
6 Feb 2013, 8:18 am by Brad Wendel
Since I was a harsh critic of John Yoo and Jay Bybee in the Bush Office of Legal Counsel, considerations of fairness and impartiality seem to require me to take a public position on the conduct of the lawyers in the Obama administration. [read post]
One of the documents read was an excerpt from a legal memo signed by Jay Bybee, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, and issued to the CIA, in which the use of waterboarding was authorized: In this procedure, the individual is bound securely to an inclined bench, which is approximately four feet by seven feet. [read post]
5 May 2011, 2:45 pm by Jonathan Zasloff
City of Goleta, Judge Jay Bybee, writing for a panel, attempted to come up with a framework for a facial challenge (apparently Bybee, who as Assistant AG for OLC signed off on John Yoo’s infamous torture memos, thinks that it’s okay to torture people as long as you leave their property intact), but over a dissent from Andrew Kleinfeld; the case went en banc, and Kleinfeld wrote the opinion. [read post]
2 Jan 2008, 6:49 pm
" It's useful to recall that it was precisely this view that was revived in an extreme form by the current Bush administration, ten years after Scalia's dissent, in the infamous 2002 "torture memo" of Assistant Attorney General Jay S. [read post]
13 Feb 2021, 3:30 am by SHG
Did she support the OLC Torture Memos, written by John Yoo and signed off by Jay Bybee. [read post]