John Yoo (photo by Ed Ritger via Wikimedia)
[E]ven I have grave concerns about Mr. Trump’s uses of presidential power…. A successful president need not have a degree in constitutional law. But he should understand the Constitution’s grant of executive power.
— Professor John Yoo of Berkeley Law, author of the controversial “torture memos,” writing critically in a New York Times op-ed about President Trump’s approach to executive authority.
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David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at [email protected].