“The framers of our Constitution were not naive. They knew that there would be times when the nation would be threatened, and they gave the president the power to do what was necessary to protect it.”

About John Yoo

Law Professor • American

John Yoo is an American lawyer, law professor, and former government official. He is currently the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Yoo is most widely known...