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July 16, 2007
If Yale had any sense of decency...
They would Retroactively Revoke John Yoo's JD. If Berkley wishes to maintain its status as a top tier law-school, they will fire John Yoo:
The Framers charged the President with protecting the nation, he tells us, "even if that meant fighting with the legislature to enforce the desires of the people." True to their British heritage, Yoo also asserts, the Framers modeled the President's war powers on those of King George III. They therefore refused to grant Congress even a concurrent power to commence war. At its core, the Constitution embodies the Framers' intention to prohibit Congress from "encroaching" on the executive's power to initiate as well as conduct war.
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Anyone who fails so badly to understand the uncontroversial history of the US Constitution is simply unfit to practice or teach law...
Posted by Andrew at July 16, 2007 10:15 PM