White House seeks advice of 'torture memos' author on powers

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: AP

Donald Trump is relying on an outlier interpretation of a recent Supreme Court decision to assert broad new powers as he prepares to sign a series of executive orders in the coming weeks.

The expansive view of presidential authority has been promoted by John Yoo, a Berkeley Law professor known for writing the so-called “torture memos” that the George W. Bush administration used to justify using “enhanced interrogation” techniques after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Yoo told The Associated Press on Thursday he's had multiple conversations with senior administration officials in which he's made the case that a June Supreme Court ruling that rejected Trump’s effort to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, opened the door to enormous new presidential power.

“I said, ‘Why not just take the DACA opinion itself and do a search-replace. And every time it says ’DACA' ... replace it with ‘skills-based immigration system,’" Yoo said he told the White House. “This gives President Trump an alternative to create such a program, at least for a few years."

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-seeks-advice-of-torture-memos-author-on-powers/ar-BB177RMP?li=BBnb7Kz

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So he's hoping Yoo will give him absolute power?

[jaxexpat]

1. It used to derive from "we the people". Now it's from "Yoo the man"?

[Auggie]

9. That's good

[bucolic_frolic]

2. They should have thrown him in the klink

in the Obama Holder DOJ years.

Trouble is, there's always so much to clean up from a GOP administration and only so much resolve. Biden needs to double the size of the executive branch and task half with clean up, retrofit, reverse, incarcerate.

[in2herbs]

7. Agree. But would add that whoever become pres after Biden should maintain or increase this

cleanup activity. It must be exterminated no matter how many years it takes. And it must be exterminated and fixed before voters forget and start voting R again.

[procon]

3. This does not bode well for any form of democratic govt.

It's one step closer to the day when Trump finally throws off the last shreds of a constitutional government and proclaims himself president for life with extra bonus dictator powers.

Congress will be disbanded. Trump might keep a lapdog SCOTUS around as a prop of his legitimacy to rule by whim.

[yuiyoshida]

4. TRUMP wants to be the next Putin, Kim Jong Il, Rodrigo Duterte, Xi jinping, the next MBS.....

He is dreaming of being Supreme Leader... in the USA... no more democratic Republic... from now on its Emperor Trump! Maybe StarWars did predict that this country would turn to the dark side.

[Maxheader]

5. Would our brothers and sisters....

Comrades in our youth..sharing the same experiences...growing together..

Would they..fire on us?....

[jgmiller]

6. It makes you wonder how he is still a professor

I read the whole thing and he is delusional, it's like saying that since some plants are poisonous we should destroy all plants to protect humans.

[in2herbs]

8. Time to start pressuring the University he works at. nt

[underpants]

10. F Yoo

[LiberalLovinLug]

11. Another legacy of the "look forward, not backward" paralysis

In not prosecuting war crimes and those that enabled them.

[ResistantAmerican17]

12. Clearly Yoo wants to add to his resume of immoral government fuckery

under gilding of legitimacy.. How this shitbird has a job anywhere except the prison laundry at The Hague prison for war criminals is a travesty.

[noneof_theabove]

13. typical

word salad with a drizzle of legalize with a side of Voodoo math.

That all the reThugs understand.