John Yoo Is Willing To Write Off SCOTUS Rather Than Risk A Trump Presidency

[kpete]

John Yoo -- a conservative lawyer and a George W. Bush administration alum who authored the so-called "torture memos" -- warned in an Los Angeles Times op-ed Tuesday that Donald Trump's promise to appoint conservative judges is not enough of a reason to support him. Yoo said the concerns raised about Trump's foreign policy proposals outweighed his vows on judicial appointments.

"While he is shaking up the world, Trump will also nominate conservatives to the federal courts — or so he says. But no one should rely on his vague promises," Yoo wrote. "He has already flip-flopped on numerous core issues, such as the minimum wage, tax rates and entitlement reform. Even when he announced his list of judges in May, Trump would not be pinned down."

Yoo cited the comments Trump has made suggesting he doesn't understand basic facts about the U.S. legal system. He argued that, even if Trump did name conservative nominees, he would face obstacles pushing them through the Senate.

"Trump’s outbursts won’t persuade the Senate to embrace more conservative nominees, where Reagan’s sunny optimism and George H.W. Bush’s patrician decency failed," Yoo wrote.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I too read that op-ed, and I was amazed...

as I found myself agreeing with Yoo.

What strange times we live in.

Thanks for the post, my dear kpete.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. We seem to have slipped through a tear in the space-time continuum

into a strange alternate universe where I find myself forced to agree with the likes of John Yoo. But he's right: Any court nominee proposed by Trump probably would be completely unacceptable to anybody. He'd probably nominate some crackpot with a law degree like Larry Klayman or Orly Taitz.

[struggle4progress]

3. "Yoo wants eight more years of Congressional obstructionism"