Is That Legal?

Well, maybe at UCal-Berkeley.

Only when John Yoo is there.

wait...yoo teaches con-law??? Yeah, if I had that class, I would ask for my money back, especially after seeing him getting intelectually destroyed by Richard Epstein in chicago at the beginning of december.

Translation1: I am telling you what dick cheney and alberto gonzales want me to say on this matter, otherwise i have no idea what is going on.

Traslation2: this is america you see, you have to be born here to be protected here see, so it requires being born, and that is why roe v. wade is so bad.

Translation3: i'm sorry, you said pudding?

I'll resist the urge to ridicule, since it's so easy to take those cheap shots, and try to actually translate. What I think Bush has done is elide most of what he was trying to say. I think he was trying to say (in short) that he wants the law to prohibit abortion. That is, he looks forward to "the day when every child is welcomed in life ... " (and their) protect(tion is enacted) into law." See, you just have to give him the benefit of a huge, huge doubt.

I took con law from John Yoo, he taught straight out of Erwin Chemerinksy's hornbook.

In whose views is John Yoo a scholar? On TV he seemed more like a second rate sock puppet...so how did he get a job?

"Erwin Chemerinksy's hornbook"

Great casebook, I have two, and a copy of the supplemental hornbook. Chemerinsky is who I think of when the term Constitutional Scholar is used. Yoo wrote a couple of books which greatly misinterpret the current state of the law.