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We Can At Least Try to Get Jay Bybee out of the Federal Judiciary.

Yglesias:

ThinkProgress is starting up a campaign to gather petitions in support of the proposition that congress needs to hold impeachment hearings on Judge Jay Bybee, one of the key architects of the Bush-era torture regime. After noting that Bybee authorized various methods of torture, from slapping to “stress positions” to waterboarding we say:

These techniques are illegal by U.S. statute and international treaty to which the U.S. is a signatory. Bybee attempted to give legal cover to illegal acts, and thus broke the ethical, professional, and legal standards that should govern lawyers. For this, Judge Jay Bybee should be impeached. Congress needs to assert some accountability for these heinous acts.

You can sign onto the petition here.

The idea of Bybee sitting in judgment of other people’s alleged transgressions is, frankly, ridiculous. It would be absurd for his colleagues on the Ninth Circuit or the District Court judges he’s empowered to overrule to take his legal “expertise” seriously.

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