Jerry Nadler

Dem Rep Sends Yoo And Bybee Materials To Bar Associations For Potential Discipline

Justin Elliott | February 26, 2010, 4:55PM

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) has forwarded materials on the writing of the torture memos to state bars where John Yoo and Jay Bybee are licensed, calling on the bar association to consider possible disciplinary action, Nadler's office announced today.

The torture memo report produced by the Justice Department's ethics office concluded that Yoo, now a professor at Berkeley, and Bybee, now federal judge on the ninth circuit, committed professional misconduct in their drafting of the memos that authorized torture.

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