Primary Lures Those Too Young to Vote* THE NEW YORK TIMES * By: Jacques SteinbergPublished: April 19, 2008http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/19/us/politics/19class.html?th&emc=th
FLOURTOWN, Pa. — The primary race between Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama could be decided in places like this bedroom community in southeastern Pennsylvania, where polls show the two Democratic presidential candidates running tight.So it was with obvious gravity that 74 fourth graders at Erdenheim Elementary School assembled this week behind the glass and tan brick walls of their classrooms to debate the campaign’s central issues. The children, most 9 or 10, then signaled their preferences for the Democratic nomination in a gradewide straw poll.
REGARDING . . . ******************************************** MEMO: Laws Didn't Apply to Interrogators * ******************************************* Justice Dept. Official in 2003 Said President's Wartime Authority Trumped Many Statutes. By Dan Eggen and Josh White, Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, April 2, 2008; Page A01. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102213.html?wpisrc=newsletter ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Justice Department sent a legal memorandum to the Pentagon in 2003 asserting that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president's ultimate authority as commander in chief overrode such... John C. Yoo, now a law professor in Berkeley, Calif., defended his memo, saying, "Our legal advice to the President, in fact, was near boilerplate." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Christopher Edley, Jr., Dean, Professor of Law edley@law.berkeley.edu
TO: Mr. John C. Yoo jyoo@law.berkeley.edu ALSO - To any and all Faculty of Berkley Law/Boalt Hall Department: jsp@uclink4.berkeley.edu, LLM@law.berkeley.edu, alumni@law.berkeley.edu, bccj@law.berkeley.edu, bclbe@law.berkeley.edu, registrar@law.berkeley.edu, visitingscholars@law.berkeley.edu, mlframpton@law.berkeley.edu, csj@law.berkeley.edu, melliott@law.berkeley.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Dean Edley: After carefully reading today's news regarding the infamous "Torture Memo", apparently it has been accurately described as such. Frankly Sir, I am astounded and appalled that you choose to employ Mr. John C. Yoo with your law faculty. Mr. John C. Yoo is a disgrace to the bar and he is a disgrace to this nation. In drafting and convincing the administration to carry out this directive, Mr. John C. Yoo placed our soldiers in greater danger and damaged the worldwide reputation of the United States of America. Mr. John C. Yoo has no business teaching future attorneys anything about the Rule of Law.
