Conflict Of Interest

by digby

John Yoo should keep his yap shut about the Sotomayor nomination and not just because complaints about thin, ideological legal reasoning coming from his pen is cause for wild gales of laughter. He should keep his mouth shut because he needs all the friends he can get on the Supreme Court. It’s not beyond the realm of possibility that he could find himself the subject of a case in which the Supremes must decide whether he can be indicted for war crimes.

It looks as though nobody is willing to pursue that at the moment, but nobody thought there could possibly be a taping system in the Nixon White House either. Anything could happen. He needs his lawyer to tell him to STFU.

Update: not to put too fine a point on it, but Yoo complaining about the use of “empathy” in the law is just sick, considering his legal reasoning with respect to torture.

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