January 28, 2009
NOTE THAT THE HEADLINE ALSIO WORKS IF CHANGED TO ""yOU":
Obama lawyers set to defend Yoo (JOSH GERSTEIN, 1/28/09, Politico)
In Democratic legal circles, no attorney has been more pilloried than former Bush Justice Department official John Yoo, chief author of the so-called torture memos that Barack Obama last week sought to nullify.Posted by Orrin Judd at January 28, 2009 8:42 AMBut now President Obama’s incoming crew of lawyers has a new and somewhat awkward job: defending Yoo in federal court.
Next week, Justice Department lawyers are set to ask a San Francisco federal judge to throw out a lawsuit brought against Yoo by Jose Padilla, a New York man held without charges on suspicion of being an Al Qaeda operative plotting to set off a “dirty bomb.