John Yoo, the onetime US Justice Department lawyer who gained notoriety for memoranda he authored widely seen as justifying the use of torture when interrogating terrorism suspects, took the stand Tuesday in defense of embattled conservative law professor John Eastman.
Eastman, an advisor to ex-President Donald Trump and former Chapman University law school dean is relying on the former George W. Bush administration official to support Eastman’s contentions that his work to buttress Trump’s claim to a second term wasn’t without legal basis.
Yoo, a University of California at Berkeley law professor, testified before the California State Bar Court that ...
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