You can’t teach the Constitution if you’re not willing to suspend it
John Yoo, Berkeley law professor and Bush administration fake law sausage maker, said the president could suspend press freedoms in his legal advice for the executive branch:
The memo was co-written by John Yoo, at the time a deputy attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel. Yoo, now a professor at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, has emerged as one of the central figures in those ongoing investigations.
In perhaps the most surprising assertion, the Oct. 23, 2001, memo suggested the president could even suspend press freedoms if he concluded it was necessary to wage the war on terror. “First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully,” Yoo wrote in the memo entitled “Authority for Use of Military Force to Combat Terrorist Activity Within the United States.”
Bush Adm. Weighed Restricting 1st Amendment | Newsweek National News | Newsweek.com
It’s a good thing this man is mosly teaching classes on constitutional law.
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Limiting free speech is all the craze these days, even doctors are doing it – http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090304/ap_on_he_me/med_gagging_patients
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