When I saw the headline, I thought that maybe the torturers’ apologist was standing up for the principle of law against the barbarian. But his real complaint is that he doesn’t think Trumpf would appoint judges who are reactionary enough.
If we’re really lucky, Hillary has a mean streak and a sense of irony that will lead her to order Yoo tortured, using his own writings to justify it.
When he starts to lose Yoo, you knew, Trump was in deep doo-doo.
This guy is another monster, in a long list of monsters, of the Dubya presidency. I care nothing about what he has to say…about anything…ever.
Guy is evil. no question. But if he costs Trump one vote, I will take it.
Yes, an accurate headline would be:
"John Yoo Is Willing To Write Off SCOTUS Rather Than Risk A Trump Presidency Because He Won’t Get the SCOTUS He Wanted Anyway".
Someone commented in the Manafort / Ukraine money thread that John Yoo was the only lawyer slimy enough to sign off on that legal opinion. I laughed then. I’m not laughing now.
But when it comes right down to it Screw Yoo, who are you going to pull the lever for when you walk into the booth?
Trump: He should be scared. I consider him a terrorist and he should expect John Yoo treatment on his genitals.
John Yoo is a proven enabler of criminality, so why would anyone place any credence in his “opinion?”
Contempt for Yoo is a given, but the interesting thing is Hillary’s opponent himself acknowledges that SCOTUS nominees are the one reason for voting for him that survives even if he makes you sick to your stomach. So when even that premise is getting questioned, welp, that’s good news for John McCain.
“Yoo said the concerns raised about Trump’s foreign policy proposals outweighed his vows on judicial appointments.”
From the man who once said it might be legal for the President to order an innocent child’s testicles to be crushed.
Taking political advice from John Yoo is akin to taking medical advice from Josef Mengele.
You should have thought about what you wrought while you were DOING it…and being warned about it. But noooooooooo, you guys ALWAYS think you are the smartest ones in the room and you don’t need no stinkin’ other opinions…
FWIW, the October 9 installment in the PBS series will be about Obama and Mittens. I’d watch that.
Really? Very cool. All over that. Thanks, Blue.
Agreed, his SCOTUS appointment list was the last remaining wheel on the Trumpmobile, last leg of the Trumpstool, last rat on the Trumpship, pick your metaphor.
Wow! The torturer has emerged from his dungeon and spoken.
Donald Trump’s campaign has a lot to worry about if they are losing the pro-torture and torturer conservatives.
I am amazed at the the people I hate who also themselves hate Trump. Donald must be really, really bad.
I can not imagine what a miserable job is must be to need to be around Trump now as one of his flunkies. I think blowing goats would be a potentially more fun/satisfying AND career enhancing occupation.
You’d think that it wouldn’t take a lawyer and war criminal to point out that the choice between a somewhat more liberal Supreme Court and potential global nuclear war out to be patently obvious to anyone.