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The Obama Administration may seek disbarment of some lawyers that served under George W. Bush:
The report by the Office of Professional Responsibility, an internal ethics unit within the Justice Department, is also likely to ask that state bar associations consider possible disciplinary action, including reprimands or even disbarment, for some of the lawyers involved in writing the legal opinions, the officials said.
The conclusions of the 220-page draft report are not final and have not yet been approved by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. The officials said it is possible the final report might be subject to revision, but they did not expect major alterations in its main findings or recommendations.
[...] At issue are whether the Justice Department lawyers acted ethically in writing a series of legal opinions from 2002 to 2007. The main targets of criticism are John Yoo, Jay S. Bybee, and Steven G. Bradbury, who as senior officials in the department’s Office of Legal Counsel were the principal authors of the memos.
A memo released in early March (covered here) showed the contempt that John Yoo apparently holds for the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Yoo advocated for putting restrictions on speech in the name of fighting the war on terror and advanced a false theory that "domestic military operations" are not subject to Fourth Amendment protections.
Any lawyer that worked in an official capacity for the government that actively advanced these theories to undermine the Constitution and protected civil liberties should be disbarred.
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