sltrib.com - 5/11/2009
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Judges appointed to the federal bench swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same... . It is part of the oath of office taken by Jay S. Bybee, after he had given the Bush ...
sltrib.com - 5/13/2009
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Tim Bridgewater was Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.'s education
adviser during the governor's first term, responsible primarily for...
helping coordinate the state's No Child Left Behind programs with the federal government. He ran twice for Congress, losing both ...
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Oops! Shurtleff unveils Senate bid plans on Twitter - ...
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Bybee, a graduate of Brigham Young University and its law school, should show himself capable of better judgment -- and of remorse -- by resigning his lifetime appointment. If he does not, Congress should begin impeachment proceedings to force him from the bench," - Salt Lake Tribune. ...
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Daily Kos —
... who believes that freezing naked prisoners to hypothermia or strapping them to a board for a 175th near-drowning or stringing them up in stress positions so long the shackles rust up is in line with America's constitutional history and custom. The same tyrannical temperament that cannot abide another reality existing which isn't hammered or tortured into the shape he wants and demands.. The Salt Lake City Tribune wants local boy Jay Bybee to resign his judgeship. Bybee, a graduate of Brigham Young University and its ...
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