John Yoo quoted in Yahoo! News, October 31, 2018 “The 14th Amendment settled the question of birthright citizenship,” John Yoo, a Berkeley law professor who served in the George W. Bush administration, wrote in a recent essay. “According to the best reading of its text, structure and history, anyone born on American territory, no matter their […]
Trump dismisses a century of constitutional scholarship in bid to end birthright citizenship
Legal experts skeptical Trump can unilaterally subsidize Appalachian coal
John Yoo quoted in The Daily Caller, August 15, 2018 “There could be existing statutes that provide for subsidies for industries that are harmed by unfair trade competition or that are advancing innovative techniques for energy development,” said Yoo, who worked in the Bush administration Justice Department and was a major proponent of the “unitary […]
Who Gets to Define the Crime?
John Yoo quoted in The Regulatory Review, December 10, 2018 “Due to a combination of increasing societal complexity and congressional cowardice, Congress has punted more and more of its duty to legislate to agencies,” law professors John Yoo, of University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and James C. Phillips of Stanford Law School, wrote in the National Review. “Agencies have been only […]
Latest shake-up of Trump’s legal team signals a more combative approach
John Yoo quoted by SentinelSource.com, May 2, 2018 “I could see it going back to the Supreme Court,” said John Yoo. … “But I don’t see how Trump could win.”
Trump would break the law bombing Bashar Assad, some scholars say
John Yoo quoted by Washington Examiner, April 12, 2018 “I think that statutory authorization comes from the [authorization for use of military force] passed after 9/11, which allows the use of force with regard to any group connected to the 9/11 attacks, which includes ISIS (which is an offshoot of al Qaida). Because ISIS is […]
As Trump vents anger over Russia probe, some senators propose protecting Mueller from getting fired
John Yoo quoted by Los Angeles Times, April 11, 2018 Yoo said Trump could argue that the Justice Department regulation “cannot constrain his constitutional authority — long recognized by Congress and the Supreme Court — to remove the attorney general and other subordinate appointees within the Justice Department.”
State AG bans employer-ICE cooperation. Can he do that?
John Yoo and Jesse Choper quoted by California Magazine, Feb. 7, 2018 Yoo: “States don’t have the power to interfere with federal operation. … If the state is trying to prevent people from obeying federal law, they might be committing obstruction of justice—which is a crime.” Choper: “For California to pass a law to regulate […]
Trump keeps undermining the FBI’s attempts to clean up its mess
John Yoo writes for The Dallas Morning News, Feb. 1, 2018 Donald Trump’s impulse to transform every activity of government into a partisan conflict undermines the difficult task of repairing a Justice Department that sorely needs it.
Eventually the president will have to talk
John Yoo writes for The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 18, 2018 The Watergate ruling makes clear that criminal investigations trump executive privilege. … If Mr. Trump then wished to prevent the questions, he would have to fire Mr. Mueller. But no matter who replaced him as special counsel, the White House would eventually have to […]
Military use of space is coming, Trump can help America prepare
John Yoo writes for The Hill, Dec. 28, 2017 While the Trump NSS is a document, but not an operating strategy, it shows that the administration is making the right moves in rejecting utopian visions of space as conflict-free zone. The great powers have already carefully crafted treaties to limit a nuclear arms race in […]