Conservative presidential power expert set to assist investigation into Trump foes

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2026, 11:44 PM ET

John Yoo — a well-known and, in some legal and political circles, infamous conservative lawyer — will assist a Justice Department investigation that has theorized a yearslong conspiracy against President Donald Trump and is looking at several former high-ranking federal officials.

Yoo, now a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, was the head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush during September 11, 2001, and is most known for authoring the “torture memos” used for detainees after the attacks. He is also a national security specialist with experience on the law around presidential power and a proponent of expanding authority for the executive branch.

Yoo is set to advise Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing, two longtime conservative attorneys who are acting as prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida and are looking at possible cases against Trump foes. Though he hasn’t started yet, Yoo will act as an intermittent consultant, or special government employee, on constitutional issues.

The addition of Yoo to the Miami-based investigation is likely to raise new questions about where DiGenova’s work, in particular, may aim — with some sources describing it as a grand conspiracy stretching from the investigation into Russian election interference in 2016 to the FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/28/politics/john-yoo-trump-justice-department-investigation

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Pox on whoever reanimated and supercharged this fucking loon.

He's been moldering in the background of both of 45's administrations but now the appear to be elevating his prominence.

[Bayard]

1. Those torture memos will no doubt come in handy again....

[Solly Mack]

2. Good thing he wasn't held accountable for his crimes. Now he is free to go after people guilty of telling the truth

about Trump.

Thanks! A lot!

Just think. In the future, when no one from the Trump Regime is held accountable for their crimes, we can look forward to them coming back around to cause more harm.

Woohoo!

Yay, us!

USA! USA! USA!

[Shipwack]

18. We're just keeping our powder dry...

[Solly Mack]

19. Oh, I'm sure there are all kinds of well-meaning reasons.

Deep, dark, watery ones. Dried up ones. Need to dig another one.

"Healing" has to be my favorite.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

21. I remember the sensible woodchucks reposting Toensing and her kid's hit pieces on the left.

Those clowns are popular when needed

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Oh goody, three more kooks willing to risk disbarment

I hope they join Rudy, Sydney Powell and John Eastman in the breadline of Trump castoffs.

[PatSeg]

4. Yet another name I didn't expect to hear again

They never really go away, always lurking in the shadows.

[travelingthrulife]

7. They never learn a damned thing.

[PatSeg]

10. That is what I find astonishing

Over and over again, we've watched people just barely dodge a bullet and still they come back for more. Even many who get caught and serve time don't seem to change, as if "Well, this time it will be different".

I guess people like John Dean (Watergate) are the rare exception. His legal repercussions were like an epiphany for him and he turned his life around.

[lonely bird]

5. So

After nuclear holocaust the only things left alive will be cockroaches and Republicans but I repeat myself.

[travelingthrulife]

6. This bastard again! Do these people never learn anything in their wasted lives?

[BradBo]

8. Three of the worst people to populate our planet.

Victoria Toensing is an absolute nut job.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

15. As is DiGenova eom

[Ray Bruns]

9. "Crimes against Humanity suspect set to assist investigation into Trump foes"

FIFY

[2na fisherman]

11. Will Enhanced Interrogation Techniques Be Used On Trump Foes?

Yoo is lucky to have immigrated from his birthplace in South Korea and acquire an Ivy League education in law. But he has chosen to bend the law to justify tortures like waterboarding. How would he like it done to him? His parents must be ashamed of him since he has chosen to work on behalf of an American dictator who praises Kim Jong Un. Joining Trump's weaponization team with the other rogues must make his work justifying torture seem like normal legal advice for a man without a moral compass.

[Cirsium]

12. Ridiculous, CNN

"Conservative presidential power expert??"

What in the hell is a "conservative presidential power expert?"

[BumRushDaShow]

13. It means like the now-disbarred John Eastman

Yoo has been a "Unitary Executive" fringe theory whore as a specialty, for years.

NPR INTERVIEW - 'Unitary executive theory' argues to restore the president's authority

[Cirsium]

14. It shouldn't be normalized

I hate the euphemisms. "Unitary Executive" = dictatorship.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. I whole-heartedly agree

But this is an "elections have consequences" thing that goes along with a SCOTUS that is overturning precedents and embracing fringe theories.

It's not just a euphemism, it's a real subject of academic legal study.

Unitary Executive Theory (UET)

[OhioBack2Blue]

17. Now a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley

that well-know librul bastion according to republicons. Pffft

[Martin Eden]

20. "Conservative" now means authoritarian subversion of Constiutional rights and protections

And disregard for truth and human decency.

[sakabatou]

22. IIRC, John Yoo cheered for torture

[mdbl]

23. You know you're society is in trouble

When those in power no longer fear you.