Suddenly, conservative lawyers are condemning Trump for abuses of power

[Kid Berwyn]

Suddenly, conservative lawyers are condemning Trump for abuses of power

By DOYLE MCMANUS
Los Angeles Times, MAY 12, 2019 | 4:00 AM
| WASHINGTON

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Even as Republicans in Congress have fallen in line to defend Trump at every turn, a surprising number of conservative lawyers have broken ranks and are condemning the president for abuses of power and denouncing his blanket claims of executive privilege.

Last week, John Yoo, the former Justice Department official who drafted a notorious memo justifying the torture of detainees under President George W. Bush, warned that Trump had gone too far in asserting unbridled presidential power.

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“This president is undermining the basic principle of checks and balances,” one of the 11, former Deputy Atty. Gen. Donald B. Ayer, told me. “It’s really kind of tyrannical. It’s un-American. It’s the sort of expansion of government power you would expect Republicans to worry about.”

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In addition, more than 800 former federal prosecutors, many of them Republicans, signed a statement declaring that the report by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, far from exonerating Trump, showed that he deserved to be indicted for obstruction of justice.

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https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-republican-lawyers-20190512-story.html

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John Yoo is so pro-president conservative, he once wrote Smirko Bush could crush a child’s testicles for America.

[elleng]

1. Oh THAT's good, john yoo!!!

[delisen]

2. They want him out. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. If John "Torture Memo" Yoo thinks you've gone too far...

[Turbineguy]

4. Trump will precipitate

a bunch of new laws limiting the power of the president. Conservatives with more than 2 functioning brain cells can see that far into the future.

[greenman3610]

5. john yoo will be the first one waterboarded

[DBoon]

6. Are they maybe afraid that they too might be victims of unlimited power?

That a dictator wouldn't stop with attacking liberals but might also go after the right as well?

Dictators tend to do this, after eliminating the opposition they go after supporters who are not "pure" enough

[Rainbow Droid]

7. Timmy v United States, iirc

[mountain grammy]

8. If John Yoo thinks he's gone too far

We’re past the point of no return.

[Steven Maurer]

9. They know if this stands, it's going to come around and bite them in the ass. N/T

[Nasruddin]

10. Incompetence is one thing

Everyone should fear a truly competent sociopath coming to power after this.