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Author of Torture Memo on the Ninth Circuit Court
Two former Justice Department lawyers who wrote the controversial “ torture memos ” are now in the west. John Yoo is a tenured professor of law at UC Berkeley, currently visiting Chapman University in Orange County. Jay Bybee is now a justice on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals with a courtroom in Las Vegas.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readTwo former Justice Department lawyers who wrote the controversial “torture memos” are now in the west. John Yoo is a tenured professor of law at UC Berkeley, currently visiting Chapman University in Orange County. Jay Bybee is now a justice on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals with a courtroom in Las Vegas. The two are handling their own cases very differently.
