Comments on: Yoo Issued an Opinion on 9/11 about Scrambling Planes

By: LS

LS — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:14:46 +0000

Hear, hear!

By: randiego

randiego — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:49:50 +0000

Now you have no excuses next time I make it to Santa Monica.

Hey if I can make it for Opera…

By: maryo2

maryo2 — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:49:23 +0000

Thanks for saying valid. I know I wear a lot of tin foil and don’t have training, time or resources to find all of the answers. It is not bad to have a hypothesis “shot down” (in keeping with this thread) because then I can stop wasting time on a dead-end and look elsewhere.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:41:35 +0000

Jeebus. They are fleeing like, well, rats! And I do remember the prior discussion. Now you have no excuses next time I make it to Santa Monica.

By: randiego

randiego — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:28:05 +0000

OT: From TPM

Closing Time

Solicitor General Paul D. Clement submits his resignation, effective June 2.

Another rat leaves the ship

By: perris

perris — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:24:35 +0000

well then at least it’s a start

jail her ass

By: randiego

randiego — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:21:33 +0000

You’ll recall we had this discussion when EW had her speaking engagement in Santa Monica… regarding what it would be like driving up from SD and crossing the great satan at that time of day… good to know it’s doable.

PJ - where are you?

By: bmaz

bmaz — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:20:32 +0000

Yes, I am familiar with inherent contempt; indeed, I have maybe been the one here screaming the loudest for just that. However, as with other forms of civil contempt, it is remedial in nature, not punitive. You stated she should continue to be held and punished even after compliance; that is not the design of the theory though. Once the contempt is cured, the citation and hold should die.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:15:11 +0000

Maryo2, that is a quite valid exercise; maybe just identify working theories a bit better in the future. To be honest, I had not heard or though of Parsky for a long time until reintroduced to the name in conjunction with the US Atty mess because of his vetting capacity on judicial nominations and then the bizarre situation surrounding Erwin Chemerinsky more recently. He sure has a lot of unusual power in regards to USA vetting, not aware of other arrangements in other places like that, but he did not appear to have been overly diabolical with that, nor in the UC Irvine deal. He is clearly a hard nosed partisan player on the other side; but I have seen little to place him in the uber-evil category. Aurora Capital actually checked out surprisingly clean back then; no idea what it would be now, but I don’t know of any change in that regard. All for what it is worth. It may just be that Yoo had the right “demographics”, not to mention a solid Harvard-Yale record, and was an attractive entry level hire in 1993.

By: perris

perris — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:05:53 +0000

I believe there is precedence for congress to jail those who defy subpeona, I believe it is called something like…”inherent contempt, there’s precedence for it and it was referenced by marcy a number of times

and since the ag will not prefer charges this is their only remedy