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John Derbyshire Is Just a Little Too Openly Racist for NRO

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Dark_Falcon4/08/2012 7:41:24 am PDT

re: #368 Johnny Derp

One of the few non-white ones is freaking John Yoo, who should be in a jail instead.

No, he shouldn’t. You don’t want to start jailing lawyers for giving legal advice, even if that advice got people hurt, unless he was directly counseling someone to break the law (which Yoo did not do). Yoo may well have counseled the Bush administration to break a UN treaty, but that is not a crime as the treaty is not self-enforcing. In any case, the need for lawyers to be able to properly advise their clients greatly outweighs any interest in punishing Yoo.