Balkinization: Truer Words Were Never Spoken

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Nice catch.

"Creative thinking" is certainly an interesting euphemism. I bet that's how Yoo actually sees what he's doing. It's hard to believe, but he probably just sees himself as doing his job, and sees this decision as an obstacle to his creative thinking.

I really need to read Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. My feeling is that it would describe Yoo pretty well. Evil doesn't carry a pitchfork. It carries a ball-point pen.

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Disenchanted Dave : 8:16 PM

Why is Yoo still a professor at Berkeley. Sorry, there are some that need to be thrown out on their ears.

# posted by

EliRabett : 9:14 PM

Yoo needs to live out the rest of his life in a state of disgrace.

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Anonymous : 11:01 PM

For what it is worth, I think it is a mistake to jump on John Yoo simply for his statement about "creative thinking." One should, certainly, oppose Yoo on the substance of a lot of what he has been arguing, but there is obviously nothing wrong with "creative thinking" as such in the law. One could have no understanding of American legal development if lawyers really were confined to making arguments that were acceptable to the absolutely establishmentarian, relatively conventional lawyers who have constituted the overwhelming majority of Supreme Court appointments over our 200 years.

That Yoo's arguments are "creative" is not what makes them objectionable.

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Sandy Levinson : 12:23 AM

No, of course not, Sandy. I'm in favor of "creative thinking," too. My point in linking to the torture memo was to highlight the euphemistic use of the phrase "creative thinking." There's no doubt that the Commander-in-Chief arguments therein *were* very creative. The Court went out of its way to excoriate those arguments -- in a case where they weren't raised -- not because they were creative but because (in the Court's view) they were wrong and undemocratic.

P.S. When the Executive Branch is going to adopt a "creative" legal argument, it should acknowledge the creativity (rather than pretending as though it's uncontroversially following the law as usual), and should do so openly, so that the other branches (and the public) can decide whether such "creativity" is a good thing.

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