John Yoo Finally Finds Some Unlimited Executive Power He Doesn't Like
When it comes to enthusiasts of unaccountable presidential power, it's generally hard to find anyone more willing to shake the pompoms for an unrestrained executive branch overriding the depleted engine of checks and balances than former Bush Justice Department official John Yoo. But now, President Barack Obama wants to use an executive order to do something about guns, and it's got Yoo all hot and bothered about the boundaries, man, what about the boundaries?
It's a bit of a break with the hoodoo that Yoo brewed in support of his previous presidential employer, who saw constitutional limitations as an impediment to prosecuting the "War on Terror." Yoo's work in support of the idea that there are "no limits on the Executive's judgment" provided the Bush administration with an abundance of material to deploy whenever the need arose to underpin their theories with some official-sounding lawyer-speak.
It's worth pointing out that the Obama administration's own adventures in John Yoo's Quasi-Constitutional Phantom Zone led to further innovations, like that time they straight up killed an American citizen without due process, just to demonstrate that they could, and then went back and killed the guy's son for reasons that amounted to "that's what you get, for having a dad like that." (Never let it be said that Donald Trump's ideas are original!)
On that particular occasion, Yoo cheered Obama from the ramparts of the Wall Street Journal opinion page. But Obama's executive order on guns has suddenly got Yoo's garters all a-pop in a brief post Wednesday at The Federalist, in which he offers advice about who might have the best standing to bring suit in federal court against the order.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-yoo-obama-executive-order-guns_568d7a31e4b0cad15e632381
John Yoo loves torture and guns!
Shocker! He's not alone, judging by most gun humpers on the Internets.
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