(Via Thers at Atrios)
In his torture memo, Yoo went through some of the legal precedents but omitted arguably the most important one, Youngstown v. Sawyer, 343, U.S. 579 (1952). In this case, the Supreme Court set limits to Executive power, even in time of war, and those limits were ignored by the criminal Bush regime. looseheadprop at FireDogLake has more detail.
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
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