Impeach Judge Jay Bybee...let the televised hearings begin.

[Hubert Flottz]

A direct route to getting to more of the truth and hopefully a way to implicate more of the criminals involved in these shameful war crimes.

Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee Confirmed as Ninth Circuit Judge

Friday, March 14, 2003

By KENNETH OFGANG, Staff Writer/Appellate Courts

Assistant Attorney General Jay S. Bybee was confirmed yesterday as the newest judge of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Senators voted 74-19 to approve the president’s nomination of Bybee to succeed Judge Procter Hug Jr., who took senior status.

Both of California’s senators, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, voted against the nomination.

The other 17 no votes were cast by Democrats Robert Byrd of West Virginia, Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Jon Corzine and Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, Mark Dayton of Minnesota, Richard Durbin of Illinois, Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, Tom Harkin of Iowa, Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, Barbara Mikulski and Paul Sarbanes of Maryland, Patty Murray of Washington, Jack Reed of Rhode Island, and Ron Wyden of Oregon. More...

http://www.supremelaw.org/rsrc/commissions/bybee.jay/Assistant%20Attorney%20General%20Jay%20Bybee%20Confirmed%20as%20Ninth%20Circuit%20Judge.htm

Here is one Bush blunder that Obama and congress can reverse. We don't need criminals in charge of our federal courts.

[Hubert Flottz]

1. 'The Honorable Judge Jay Bybee'

Honorable? About as 'Honorable' as the GESTAPO.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Check this out...

Fajitagate: Judge Bybee Declines to Recuse Himself / Motion for Reconsideration Filed

February 11, 2008

BYBEE WON'T RECUSE HIMSELF IN FAJITAGATE EXCESSIVE-FORCE CASE

By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
This article appears on Page 4.

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal appellate Judge Jay S. Bybee has denied a plaintiffs' motion to recuse himself from hearing an excessive-force appeal in a notorious case involving a sack of steak fajitas.

Plaintiffs' attorney Dennis Cunningham, a San Francisco sole practitioner, asserted that Bybee, of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, cannot be fair because of his prior involvement in Bush administration torture policy. In 2002, Bybee, an assistant attorney general, authorized a now-repudiated memo which significantly narrowed the definition of torture.

Cunningham's motion called excessive force a form of torture.

The motion, filed Thursday, and Bybee's denial without comment the next day are the backdrop for the oral argument scheduled for Wednesday in a special court session at Boalt Hall. Snyder v. City and County of San Francisco, 06-15838. MORE...

http://www.denniscunninghamlaw.com/node/24