Sen. Whitehouse on Jay Bybee: 'It is certainly possible that an impeachment inquiry is warranted.' (interview, legal)

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Tonight on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow interviewed Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a member of the Judiciary Committee, about his views on whether Jay Bybee should be impeached:

MADDOW: Do you think that it is possible that an impeachment inquiry is warranted in this case, if only because the circumstances that are known about Judge Bybee's career are now so different than when the Senate voted on
him in 2003?

WHITEHOUSE: It is certainly possible that an impeachment inquiry is warranted. But I think that decision should probably wait until the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility finishes its investigation into the Office of Legal Counsel and all of these opinions.

Whitehouse said the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility is expected to release the results of its year-long investigation in the very near future.

Think Progress » Sen. Whitehouse on Jay Bybee: ‘It is certainly possible that an impeachment inquiry is warranted.’

[golfgod]

I would say it's definitely warranted. The kind of "tortured" logic that Bybee and Woo used would have gotten you laughed out of class in some law schools. And yet Woo is still employed, with tenure yet at that (supposed) bastion of liberality UC Berkely. I have a few acquaintances that are Boalt grads and they are not happy about that.

An honorable man would resign from his seat on the Federal bench, but from his writings we know that won't happen.

golfgod

[djacques]

Yoo, not Woo. lol