John Yoo Faces Back-to-School Welcome at Berkeley
John Yoo should be fired, disbarred and prosecuted for war crimes, according to anti-war activists who greeted the University of California at Berkeley law
Jul 31, 202086.1K Shares1.4M Views
John Yoo should be fired, disbarred and prosecuted for war crimes, according to anti-war activists who greeted the University of California at Berkeley law professor when he returned to Boalt Hall, the law school where he has tenure, on Monday.
Yoo, of course, is the author of the infamous “torture memos” that justified the abuse and torture of terror suspects held abroad in U.S. custody, and authorized the suspension of the Bill of Rightson U.S. soil.
The Associated Press reportsthat campus police arrested at least four people who refused to leave the university’s law school building.
Yoo reportedly ignored the demonstrators and. after police removed them from his classroom, began teaching.
Yoo returned to UC Berkeley yesterday after spending the spring semester at Chapman University School of Law in Orange County, where his friend John Eastman is the dean.
According to the AP, Berkeley law students are divided over Yoo: while some think he’s a war criminal who should be fired, his classes are still among the most popular at the law school.
The Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility is expected to release a report any day nowanalyzing the conduct of Yoo and his colleagues at the Office of Legal Counsel under the Bush administration, and determining whether he violated ethical rules. The report has been delayed for months while its subjects and the Department of Justice review and amend its contents.
Rhyley Carney
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