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Bad idea... (3.50 / 2) (#5)
by Alec82 on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 09:44:23 PM EST
...I can just hear the "anti-PC" police now.  Perhaps he should just resign and leave.  He can't be happy there.  He called it a People's Republic when I saw him.

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The first thing: disbarment. (5.00 / 1) (#48)
by rhbrandon on Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 06:57:05 AM EST
Someone like John Yoo has no business even holding a law license in the first place.  Either before, or alongside, the effort to thrown him out of the UC law school, the man's license to appear or act as an attorney needs to be revoked.

Throwing him out of a teaching position doesn't take away his ability to do harm. Neither will disbarment per se. However, while disbarment won't keep him from breaking bread with his fellow war criminals at the Heritage Foundation and other GOP retirement homes, it would, like the disbarment of Scooter Libby, do much to delegitimize his career, the evil causes he and others devoted their lives to, and the personal life he built with it.  It may not be true internal exile, but it would have to do.

It would allow everyone, and everyone, to think anytime he said something "from his experience" or when anyone said anything about him that "didn't he lose his law license for that? What an idiot."

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Justice Dept Releases John Yoo Torture Memo | 132 comments (132 topical)

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