Reply #59: Yoo is licensed to practice law in PA (not CA). A fellow PA attorney . . .

[pat_k]

. . .can start disbarment proceedings

The following was noted in a blog posting I cam across.

PA attorney calls for John C. Yoo's disbarment. Yoo was the mastermind behind various legal arguments the White House used to later justify alleged violations of the law: Prisoner mistreatment, rendition, and the NSA domestic surveillance.

Richard J. Schaedler, an attorney with a clean Pennsylvania attorney discipline record has called for Yoo to be disbarred. Yoo, like Schaedler, is licensed to appear before the Pennsylvania bar.

It remains unclear Schaedler made his comments on the After Downing Street Memo.org website, or whether he or anyone else has filed a formal complaint in Pennsylvania.

In my view, it would be more effective if an attorney were, if they have substantive allegations based on a review of the record, to file the complaint in formal channels.

Although Yoo is an educator in California, according to the CA State Bar Discipline system, he is not licensed to practice law in California.

I'll poke around later to see if I can find anyone pursuing a formal action. But, whether or not there are existing complaints, if anybody out there knows an attorney licensed in PA, perhaps we can enlist as many as we can find in a coordinated effort.

As long as the effort can be effectively tied to the Impeachment of Bush and Cheney, it would serve that immediate goal (rather than distract from it).