John Yoo's book tour anti-torture demonstrators in orange jump suits inevitable subtext

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orangjumpsuts-ucblaw-grad-2009.jpgKenneth Jost, Supreme Court editor of CQ Press published a great article today noting protests dogging "the Torture Professor" John Yoo's book tour this month; "Constitutional law professor John Yoo is out promoting his new book and its stout defense of the need for a strong president in times of national emergencies. But the demonstrators in orange jump suits outside his recent appearance in Washington, D.C., were a reminder that Yoo's thesis has an inevitable subtext: his authorship of the later-repudiated Justice Department memo claiming a presidential power to commit torture. Yoo makes no mention in Crisis and Command of either of the two infamous torture memos that he drafted..."
Strong Presidents Have No Need for Torture

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