Notorious UC Berkeley law school professor John Yoo has proven once again this week that he’s a partisan huckster and an academic fraud. Throughout much of the past decade, Yoo staked his academic and legal reputation on the argument that the US Constitution calls for a powerful presidency. While on sabbatical as a lawyer in the Bush Justice Department, Yoo even went so far as to say that the Constitution gave the president the power to ignore US and international law and order that suspected terrorists be tortured.
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