The New York Times, January 4, 2009 by John R. Bolton and John Yoo http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/opinion/05bolton.html International agreements that go beyond the rules of international trade and finance—that involve significant national-security commitments, or that purport to delegate lawmaking and enforcement functions to international organizations, or that could fundamentally alter the American constitutional system of individual rights—should […]

FOX TV, America’s News Headquarters, Dec. 10, 2008 Hosted by Heather Nauert (Link no longer active) “It’s very easy to say, ‘Oh, we should shut down Guantanamo Bay, it’s hurting our world image.’ The hard thing is, what do you do when you shut it down?… Where in the United States are we going to […]

Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 7, 2008 by John Yoo http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all%2CpubID.29030/pub_detail.asp Obama shouldn’t misinterpret his electoral victory as a sweeping mandate—perhaps President Bush’s overarching political mistake—or the introduction of a new political order. The president-elect would be better-served by moving swiftly to cure the recession and then focusing on moderate, bipartisan policies in areas such as education, […]

The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 10, by John Yoo http://www.philly.com/inquirer/currents/26482104.html Slowly but surely, the justices have expanded their power to make many of our society’s fundamental political and moral decisions…. This is not to deny that there are moments that we need the courts to defend individual liberties against unconstitutional actions by the government. But those […]

The New York Times, July 4, by William Glaberson http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/washington/04gitmo.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1215561648-rE/5KhbxUkOh2WYH9KxoHQ John Yoo, one of the architects of the administration’s original detention policy … said federal courts usually waited for a trial to play out before evaluating its fairness. But, he said, after the “overreaching” by the Supreme Court decision, “any form of judicial micromanagement is […]

Wall Street Journal, June 17, by John Yoo http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB121366596327979497.html “From the celebrations on most U.S. editorial pages, one might think that the Court had stopped a dictator from trampling civil liberties. Boumediene did anything but. The 5-4 ruling is judicial imperialism of the highest order.”

Esquire, May 13, by John H. Richardson http://www.esquire.com/features/john-yoo-0608 But those harsh interrogation techniques migrated straight to Iraq. What about that? “That was definitely not permitted under the decision-making level I was at,” Yoo says. “It was clearly not. The Geneva Conventions fully applied in Iraq…. In World War II, we interned people, tens of thousands […]

New York Times, July 1, by Jeffery Rosen http://www.law.berkeley.edu/news/mediacoverage/inthenews/July1-13-07.pdf#yoo “School administrators and bureaucrats are so heavily invested in the idea of diversity that they will try an amazing array of policies to get around the ban of the use of race…”

Wall Street Journal, July 23, Op-Ed by John Yoo http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118515439797574598.html?apl=y (requires registration) Republicans aren’t exactly racing to defend President Bush’s assertion of executive privilege against Congress’s investigation of his firing nine U.S. attorneys…