Jay Bybee is currently sitting on the 9 th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. As assistant attorney general in President George W. Bush’s Justice Department, ...

Today Jay Bybee is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9 th Circuit, but apparently being elevated to the federal bench hasn’t stunted his creative powers. In a case called Guggenheim v ...

Jay Bybee -- who signed off on waterboarding as a Justice Department lawyer -- ruled last week that the government should be immune from liability for torture. Take Thursday, for example ...

On Wednesday night, in a dissent signed by four other judges, Judge Jay Bybee of the Ninth Circuit laid out the most thorough case yet arguing in favor of the constitutionality of Trump’s ...

Of the handful of individuals caught up in the controversy over the Bush administration memos that sanctioned the use of waterboarding and other coercive interrogation practices, the case of Jay ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. senators got few answers from Jay Bybee about his work at the Justice Department while evaluating his nomination to be a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Jay Bybee, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, should resign, argue three Seattle appellate attorneys. As an assistant attorney general, Bybee authored two legal ...

WASHINGTON -- Las Vegan Jay Bybee "exercised poor judgment" but will not face discipline for producing memos that gave the Bush administration the green light to pursue waterboarding and other ...

LAS VEGAS — One Saturday night last May, Jay Bybee hosted dinner for 35 at a Las Vegas restaurant. The people seated around him had all served as his law clerks in the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...

Liberal activists are pressing for the impeachment of federal Judge Jay Bybee over the Bush administration’s “torture memos” in part because there is virtually nothing that President Barack ...

WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has invited federal Judge Jay Bybee to testify about his role in developing legal memos that set a foundation for harsh interrogations o ...

Liberal activists are pressing for Jay Bybee’s impeachment as a judge for involvement with 2002 torture memos. By Josh Gerstein. 04/29/2009 03:08 PM EDT.