1. The two faces of President Obama
(Newsletter)

...6 April 2009 The Society of American Law Teachers—SALT—supports the nomination and confirmation of Professor Dawn Johnsen as Assistant Attorney General to direct the Department of Justice, Office of ...

2. Electoral Sham in Haiti
(Newsletter)

...6 April 2009 The Society of American Law Teachers—SALT—supports the nomination and confirmation of Professor Dawn Johnsen as Assistant Attorney General to direct the Department of Justice, Office of ...

3. Call for Dismissal and Prosecution of John Yoo
(Newsletter)

... Center for Constitutional Rights Supports National Lawyers Guild On April 1, a secret 81-page memo written by former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo in March 2003 was made public.  I...

4. SALT Urges Confirmation of Professor Dawn Johnsen
(Editor/Letters)

The Society of American Law Teachers—SALT—supports the nomination and confirmation of Professor Dawn Johnsen as Assistant Attorney General to direct the Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel

5. ICRC's Damning Expose of US Torture
(Opinions/Daily)

...rders, and memos authorized interrogation practices amounting to torture. Most infamous were two memos by John Yoo (as deputy assistant attorney general), Alberto Gonzales (as White House counsel), Ja...

6. Memos Provide Blueprint for Police State
(Editor/Editorial)

...just made public were also eventually disavowed, several years after they were written. Steven Bradbury, the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in Bush’s Department of Justice, issued two dis...

7. White House lawyers didn't believe Constitution applied to them
(Mamblog/Default Category)

...on authorizing the military to operate domestically was dated Oct. 23, 2001, and written by John C. Yoo, at the time a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel, and Robert J. D...

8. Alice Walker, Bob Moses on Obama
(Opinions/Society)

...ring of 1963. And at that time, President Kennedy was still alive, Bobby Kennedy was attorney general, Burke Marshall was the assistant attorney general for civil rights, and John Doar was my lawyer. ...

9. Bush Officials Violated Anti-Torture Laws
(Opinions/op-ed)

... director for the New York City district; and INS Commissioner James Zigler. High Bush aides responsible for torture include Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee, who on August 1, 2002, drafted what ...

10. Just What We Need: New Reasons to Go to War
(Opinions/op-ed)

... view, that prerogative is part of the inherent powers of the presidency. The recently released 2003 “torture memo” by Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo states, “The decision to deploy milita...