Trump consults Bush torture lawyer on how to skirt law and rule by decree
- John Yoo wrote memo used to justify waterboarding
- Trump keen to use executive orders and circumvent Congress
The Trump administration has been consulting the former government lawyer who wrote the legal justification for waterboarding, on how the president might try to rule by decree.
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