Impeach Bybee: The Growing Movement to Unseat Bush Torture Lawyer Turned Federal Judge

[florida08]

Source: Huffington Post

While the leadership of the Democratic Party remains silent on Obama's refusal to hold torturers accountable, activists are demanding a special prosecutor and calling on Congress to impeach Jay Bybee.

In the Sunday New York Times, the paper's editors call for the impeachment of Judge Jay Bybee, author of one of the now infamous torture memos released last week. Bybee is now a federal judge. In its editorial, "The Torturers' Manifesto," the Times argued:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/opinion/19sun1.html

The investigation should start with the lawyers who wrote these sickening memos, including John Yoo, who now teaches law in California; Steven Bradbury, who was job-hunting when we last heard; and Mr. Bybee, who holds the lifetime seat on the federal appeals court that Mr. Bush rewarded him with.

These memos make it clear that Mr. Bybee is unfit for a job that requires legal judgment and a respect for the Constitution. Congress should impeach him. And if the administration will not conduct a thorough investigation of these issues, then Congress has a constitutional duty to hold the executive branch accountable. If that means putting Donald Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales on the stand, even Dick Cheney, we are sure Americans can handle it.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-scahill/impeach-bybee-the-growing_b_188954.html

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Yes yes yes

[navarth]

1. K & R

[onehandle]

2. Impeach all Bush placed judges. Including the two SCOTUS Justices.

Take no chances. Take them all down.

[Wizard777]

3. I'm calling my Congress Critter.

[IndianaGreen]

4. And fire John Yoo, who worked under Bybee

Yoo should be disbarred, much less allowed to teach law.

[No Elephants]

12. Contact Berkeley, where Yoo is a prof, and Chapman, where he is a visiting

chair, and tell both those insitutions how you feel.

http://berkeley.edu/misc/mainsite_feedback.shtml

http://www.chapman.edu/law/contact.asp


For more places you may want to contact to complain about Yoo, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo

There are, for example, his book publisher and places that regularly publish the articles written by POS, Esq., such as the NYT and the LAT.

[juno jones]

5. K&R!

[Left Coast2020]

6. Hell Yes!! Divided we stand, divided we fall!

Don't stop people. Keep it going!!

:patriot:

[burning rain]

7. The guy has to go.

He's obviously an extreme ideologue prepared to trash the Constitution and human rights.

[Hubert Flottz]

8. Anything less would be uncivilized!

The world is watching...is America a "Beacon of Freedom" or just a cheap imitation?

[SlingBlade]

9. K & R "America Does Not Torture",

Remember ?

[No Elephants]

10. I emailed my Congressional Rep this morning. (And so can you!)

Apologies to Stephen Colbert.

[MasonJar]

11. Kudos to the NYT. We need a Special; Prosecutor NOW

[valerief]

13. Buh-Bybee! nt

[bdamomma]

14. I would love to see justice come back to the US.

[bdamomma]

15. if there was a time to join to those who are not members

join now ACLU

http://www.aclu.org/

[florida08]

16. absolutely

We've gone from what is the definition of "is" to enhanced waterboarding is not torture. We really need to shut people like Dick Cheney and Michael Hayden up with a good old fashion legal showdown.