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John Yoo on Presidential Power John Yoo explains the enormous power of the Presidency and the executive branch that our new President will soon wield—surely no more bashfully than his predecessors—as a function of the size, complexity and power of American society, as well as American history.
Posted: December 8, 2008

John Yoo On Presidential Power. Posted December 8, 2008
John Yoo explains the enormous power of the Presidency and the executive branch that our new President will soon wield—surely no more bashfully than his predecessors—as a function of the size, complexity and power of American society, as well as American history.

John Yoo

John Yoo

A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, John Yoo is a professor of law at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley. He previously was Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice. He also served on the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate General Counsel. He has published articles in a number of the nation's leading law journals and opinion pieces in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, and Los Angeles Times. He is the author of THE POWERS OF WAR AND PEACE: Foreign Affairs and the Constitution After 9/11.

CRISIS AND COMMAND: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush (Kaplan Publishing, 2010)

GLOBALIZATION AND SOVEREIGNTY: A Constitution for the 21st Century (Yale University Press, 2011)

WAR BY OTHER MEANS: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror (Grove Atlantic, 2006)


John Yoo on why the President and not Congress has the power to make war
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