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Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power From George Washington to George W. Bush, By John Yoo
"... throughout American history, crisis has inspired constitutional daring, and the race to presidential greatness goes not to the leader who hews most faithfully to the constitutional text but to the one most willing to bend the document to meet the perceived demands of the day. It is a disappointing contribution to the literature on the Constitution and the American presidency, and beneath a scholar of Yoo’s ability."
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What a tendentious, steaming, festering pool of rancid diarrhea from a sick dog. This is no doubt how lawyers acquired their stellar reputation - by desperately attempting to concoct some duplicitous fig leaf of a defense for each other no matter how heinous their crimes.
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What a tendentious, vile, pile of steaming, festering diarrhea from a sick dog. This is no doubt how lawyers acquired their stellar reputation for integrity - by desperately scraping for some pathetic vestige of a defense for each other's conduct, no matter how despicable, reprehensible, and criminal that conduct might be. At the very least, what John Yoo deserves is to experience (in depth) virtually every example of the inhuman and inhumane treatment that he has enabled or advocated to be inflicted on unindicted political prisoners (I will except sexual mutilation of his children on non-collectivist, individual guilt grounds). What kind of statist tool has STR deteriorated into when an article like this is featured?
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Abolitionist,
I agree that Woo is despicable, but STR is just linking to a mostly negative review of Yoo's book as a news item. I don't think the fact that STR is linking to this review can in any way be taken as some sort of endorsement of Yoo.
Abolitionist,
I think you're missing the point. What about the article implies that STR has deteriorated into a statist tool, as you say?