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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: bijou on March 07, 2009, 11:43:55 AM
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kpete (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-07-09 05:29 AM
Original message
Obama lawyers argue to drop Yoo torture suit
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Obama lawyers argue to drop Yoo torture suit
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, March 6, 2009
(03-06) 18:08 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- President Obama's Justice Department defended former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo in a San Francisco federal court Friday, arguing that a prisoner formerly held as an enemy combatant had no right to sue Yoo for writing legal memos that allegedly led to his detention and torture.
"We're not saying we condone torture," department attorney Mary Mason said at a hearing on the government's request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Jose Padilla. But any recourse against a government lawyer "is for the executive to decide, in the first instance, and for Congress to decide," not the courts, she said.
"You're not saying that if high public officials commit clearly illegal acts, a citizen subject to those acts has no remedy in this court?" asked U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White.
Not unless Congress has expressly authorized a lawsuit, Mason replied. She cited the argument the Justice Department made in Yoo's case last year, with President George W. Bush still in office, that courts should not interfere in executive decision-making, especially in wartime.
White did not indicate how or when he would rule.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/0...
Dinger (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-07-09 05:31 AM
Response to Original message
1. O.K., What The **** Is Going On Here?
Obama did say "No one is above the law," didn't he?
crikkett (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-07-09 03:46 PM
Response to Reply #10
88. I read somewhere that the lawyers arguing these cases are BushCo holdovers
and honestly I think they're doomed to failure.
flyarm (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-07-09 03:49 PM
Response to Reply #88
90. how have they failed so far??????
and who decided to keep 51 of them?????
Oh I know, the easter bunny!!
Turmoil (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3772045#3772048)
Very long thread full of misery and anger. :-)
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Guess what DUmmies...the sky is blue and the grass is green in the real world.
Your made up one doesn`t exist. :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: