June 16, 2004

The Few Who Stood Against Jay Bybee

Jay Bybee was perhaps my least favorite Bush II appointee to a federal circuit court (though yes, it is hard to pick just one) even before it was revealed that he wrote the Justice Department’s “torture memo” arguing that the president basically has the powers of a totalitarian monster, including the power to break U.S. law and order torture (and remember that in the memo Bybee considers only a very few particularly heinous acts to be torture). This is just one more thing to add to a lengthy list of actions by Judge Bybee that show a frightening lack of concern for basic human rights and the liberty of average Americans. With that in mind I would like to take a moment to thank the 19 senators (all Democrats) who voted against his nomination to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2003: Barbara Boxer, Robert Byrd, Hillary Clinton, Jon Corzine, Mark Dayton, Dick Durbin, Russ Feingold, Dianne Feinstein, Tom Harkin, Dan Inouye, Edward Kennedy, Frank Lautenberg, Carl Levin, Barbara Mikulski, Patty Murray, Jack Reed, Paul Sarbanes, Debbie Stabenow and Ron Wyden. Sadly the president and 74 senators backed him, so he now serves on that influential body. But at least some of our public servants are insisting that our judges respect liberty, the Bill of Rights and American law.

Posted by armand at June 16, 2004 11:13 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics


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