Showdown in Pasadena with "Torture Judge" Jay Bybee

Submitted by Anna on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 10:30

By Cynthia Papermaster, Berkeley and Susan Harman, Oakland
July 8, 2009, Pasadena, CA

It’s a problem that Jay Bybee is a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. How can he serve as a judge when he seriously violated the laws against inhumane treatment of detainees and gave legal approval to interrogation techniques that amount to torture. We agree with Patrick Leahy, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, that if Bybee’s a decent human being, he’ll resign. We agree with MoveOn and People for the American Way, who’ve submitted 140,000 petition signatures to John Conyers, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, asking him to impeach Bybee. And we agree with the New York Times, which called for his impeachment twice in April.

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