‘Torture Memos’ author John Yoo thinks Trump has gone too far

John Yoo, left, law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, and President Trump. John Yoo, the constitutional scholar who wrote a controversial opinion backing President George W. Bush’s authority to torture terror suspects, now believes President Trump is overstepping his authority in numerous areas of foreign policy. Yoo’s assessment, in an op-ed in Monday’s New York Times, is not particularly novel or unique in the current political climate, with tremendous resistance to the Trump administration throughout the country.