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  • Padilla v. Yoo

    The judgment of Nuremberg was that no one is above the law. Thus the lowest of privates and ensigns in the military to their generals and the leaders of their nations are all subject to the law. When any commits a crime from torture to the murder of civilians those people have broken the law and should be tried for crimes against humanity as was ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by Dr. Arthur Frederick Ide on June 23, 2009

  • At the "heart" of the debate

    Lithwick says: The fight playing out between the left and the right now isn't ''Did we water-board?'' We already knew we did. It is barely even ''Was it legal?'' Virtually nobody seriously argues that it was. The fight we are having in America now is ''Did it work?'' She's right. Case in point: see the lead photograph and caption in a recent ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by dpopowski on April 28, 2009

  • re Normative version--YES prosecute.

    If Nancy Pelosi catches hell too, that will show it isn't policy differences that are being prosecuted, but crimes. I mean, Pelosi and Cheney have very big policy differences.
    Posted to Politics by Richard Locke Peterson on April 26, 2009

  • Bios Are Always Political

    Snide suggestion over reasoning. As always. I prefer the release of Yoo's excuses for Bush to assume dictatorship, over re-positioning Bush's theoretical legecy. But then, I also find the setting aside of constitutional rights more important, as a news story, than which White House left-over updated a trivial section of the WH site, while the ...
    Posted to Altered States by oregonbird on March 6, 2009

  • Letting Yoo off easy

    Though it is impolitic for one law professor to criticize another, the article does seem to let John Yoo off easy. Though I am only 30, rightly or wrongly, I see myself as an adult. Though Berkeley apparently approves of Professor Yoo, I wish Ackerman hadn't so quickly dismissed Yoo's role.
    Posted to Jurisprudence by ezrarosser on January 15, 2009

  • Do We Believe An American Life Is Worth More Than Any Other?

    It is not just Yoo, Bush & Cheney. It is a basic American flaw in philosophical self-awareness that holds that an American life is more valuable than an Iraqi life or the life of any other who can be allowed to die or be tortured for an American. To a lesser extent, although we mourn over our own fallen soldiers, we also place a lesser value ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by john adkisson on December 18, 2008

  • Finally someone makes the crucial point

    When supporters of torture try to justify their position, it's always about the ticking time bomb scenario. That's because it's always easy to construct hypotheticals in which some heinous act appears to be less evil than some even more heinous alternative. But the whole point here is that this debate is about government policy and the law. ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by marginnote on July 27, 2008