Trump consults Bush torture lawyer on how to skirt law and rule by decree

[yortsed snacilbuper]

The Trump administration has been consulting the former government lawyer who wrote the legal justification for waterboarding on how the president might try to rule by decree

John Yoo told the Guardian he has been talking to White House officials about his view that a recent supreme court ruling on immigration would allow Trump to issue executive orders on whether to apply existing federal laws.

“If the court really believes what it just did, then it just handed President Trump a great deal of power, too,” Yoo, a professor at Berkeley Law, said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-consults-bush-torture-lawyer-on-how-to-skirt-law-and-rule-by-decree/ar-BB16YoGX?ocid=msedgntp

[UTUSN]

1. K&R

[BComplex]

2. And Senate republicans are ok with this?????

This needs to get out, and keep getting out, until it's totally understood by EVERYONE.

AND this is what happens when people in past administrations are NOT punished or held accountable. They just do it again the next time.

[Nevilledog]

3. Of course he did.

[yellowcanine]

4. Yoo should have been disbarred for the torture memo.

Just sayin'.