John Yoo is a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, widely known for his role as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the George W. Bush administration, where he authored controversial legal memoranda on executive power and interrogation policy. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard on constitutional law, executive authority, and political analysis. A prolific legal commentator, he has written extensively on presidential power, foreign affairs, and the separation of powers.
Our Framers would despair about the winners of the nation's first presidential primaries in New Hampshire. Though polar opposites with very different ideological starting points, both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders would have set the Framers' hair – or wigs – on fire. They designed the…
Obamacare has quickly become a train wreck. Its troubled website, higher premiums, and inevitable shortages and rationing, married to President Barack Obama’s political refusals to enforce parts of the law, guarantee that the program will go down as one of
Turmoil in the Middle East has exposed the vulnerabilities of President Barack Obama’s listless foreign policy. As Iran closes in on its nuclear prize and props up Assad’s bloody regime in Syria, the United States has the opportunity to deal a crippling blow to its oldest, most dangerous enemy in…
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