Legal Theory Blog (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
John C. Yoo (University of California at Berkeley School of Law) has posted Andrew Jackson and Presidential Power on SSRN. Here is a taste: While Andrew Jackson laid the foundations for what we can begin to recognize as the modern...
National Security Advisors (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
John C. Yoo, Andrew Jackson and Presidential Power, 2 Charleston Law Review (forthcoming 2008) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm'abstract_id=1158001 From the conclusion: Jackson reconstructed the Presidency. His tenure in the office was every bit as revolutionary as that of Washington or Jefferson. He did...
novalawcity (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Juicy stuff happens on C-SPAN3 all the time. It's practically a daytime soap opera. Seriously. Take this little drama for example... "Former Attorney General John Ashcroft answers questions about his role in the drafting of detainee interrogation rules utilized at...
Time (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft on Thursday disavowed the now-defunct legal reasoning used to justify harshly questioning terrorism suspects
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
The House Judiciary Committee is taking testimony today from three witnesses regarding the DOJ and its approval of interrogation techniques and procedures in Gitmo and beyond. Witnesses today include: -- John D. Ashcroft, former Attorney General of the United States -- Walter Dellinger, former Assistant Attorney General and Solicitor General -- Ben Wittes, Brookings Institution The hearing began...
