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kpete (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-07-09 05:29 AMOriginal message Obama lawyers argue to drop Yoo torture suit Source: San Francisco ChronicleObama lawyers argue to drop Yoo torture suitBob Egelko, Chronicle Staff WriterFriday, 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 AMResponse 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 PMResponse 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 PMResponse to Reply #88 90. how have they failed so far?????? and who decided to keep 51 of them?????Oh I know, the easter bunny!!
