Should federal judge Jay Bybee be impeached for authoring memos that justified Bush Administration interrogation techniques?

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John Ensign
	Federal judge Jay Bybee should not be impeached for authoring memos that justified Bush Administration interrogation techniques. "To call for him to be impeached when he was trying to give the proper legal advice is just ridiculous.
	9/12/2009 1:21:31 PM

Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
	Federal judge Jay Bybee should not be impeached for authoring memos that justified Bush Administration interrogation techniques. "This is a very, very bad idea."
	5/20/2009 2:30:54 PM

Joan Walsh
	Federal judge Jay Bybee should be impeached for authoring memos that justified Bush Administration interrogation techniques. We can start by impeaching Jay Bybee, but it can't end there.
	5/20/2009 2:16:06 PM

Ed Rollins
	Federal judge Jay Bybee should not be impeached for authoring memos that justified Bush Administration interrogation techniques. But these were not evil men who drafted the memos. These were not evil people who carried out the methods authorized by them. They were our fellow citizens who were trying to protect us from the real evildoers.
	4/26/2009 3:44:48 PM

Russ Feingold
	Federal judge Jay Bybee should be impeached for authoring memos that justified Bush Administration interrogation techniques. "Grounds for impeachment can be made"
	4/25/2009 5:43:11 AM

John Nichols
	Federal judge Jay Bybee should be impeached for authoring memos that justified Bush Administration interrogation techniques. "Bybee must be impeached."
	4/25/2009 5:00:04 AM

Lamar S. Smith (R-TX)
	Federal judge Jay Bybee should not be impeached for authoring memos that justified Bush Administration interrogation techniques. Even government lawyers must be free to provide legal advice and counsel without fear of retribution from politicians
	4/24/2009 3:00:27 PM

Karl Rove
	Federal judge Jay Bybee should not be impeached for authoring memos that justified Bush Administration interrogation techniques. accused Obama of seeking to conduct "show trials" a day after the president left open the possibility of prosecuting officials who provided legal analysis of interrogation procedures.
	4/24/2009 2:57:14 PM

Center for Constitutional Rights
	Federal judge Jay Bybee should be impeached for authoring memos that justified Bush Administration interrogation techniques. Center joins letter calling for impeachment.
	4/24/2009 2:55:34 PM

Joe Klein
	Federal judge Jay Bybee should be impeached for authoring memos that justified Bush Administration interrogation techniques. I'd still like to see the sucker impeached and kicked off the 9th District Court, though.
	4/24/2009 2:54:11 PM

Matthew Yglesias
	Federal judge Jay Bybee should be impeached for authoring memos that justified Bush Administration interrogation techniques. I think the case for impeaching him on the grounds of misconduct would be pretty clear.
	4/24/2009 1:48:12 PM

Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL)
	Federal judge Jay Bybee should be impeached for authoring memos that justified Bush Administration interrogation techniques. We’ve already seen that he’s willing to interpret the laws in ways that are counter to the fundamental values of our country. I think that is a proper response.
	4/24/2009 1:48:05 PM

Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)
	Federal judge Jay Bybee should be impeached for authoring memos that justified Bush Administration interrogation techniques. "He ought to be impeached," Nadler said in an interview with the Huffington Post
	4/24/2009 1:47:58 PM

Bruce Ackerman
	Federal judge Jay Bybee should be impeached for authoring memos that justified Bush Administration interrogation techniques. Impeach Jay Bybee
	4/24/2009 1:47:49 PM

The New York Times
	Federal judge Jay Bybee should be impeached for authoring memos that justified Bush Administration interrogation techniques. Congress should impeach him.
	4/24/2009 1:44:46 PM

Orrin Hatch
	Federal judge Jay Bybee should not be impeached for authoring memos that justified Bush Administration interrogation techniques. "Any attempt to impeach Judge Bybee would be fundamentally wrong."
	4/24/2009 6:33:54 AM

John McCain
	Federal judge Jay Bybee should not be impeached for authoring memos that justified Bush Administration interrogation techniques. We do not believe, however, that legal analysis should be criminalized, as proposals to prosecute government lawyers suggest.
	4/23/2009 5:51:08 PM