Ethics

Yoo Gets His Own Lawyers

By Ed Brayton

There's been an interesting development in Padilla v Yoo, the case filed by Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen who was arrested and detained for years without representation or charges being filed, against former OLC attorney John Yoo, who provided the legal justification for that indefinite detention until the federal courts shot down that justification and required the government to charge Padilla or release him.

Up until now, the Department of Justice has been defending the case, since it was against Yoo in his official capacity as a DOJ employee. But now that defense is being taken over by private counsel:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 03, 2009 (boomark / email).