A New Third Amendment Jurisprudence?

Well, it seems the Bush Justice Department, via John Yoo, was willing to give the president a pass on essentially anything he would want to do to combat terrorism immediately following 9/11: use the US military on US soil without congressional approval; spy on and conduct raids of US citizens without warrants; unilaterally abrogate treaties; suspend the First Amendment as to both speech and the press; preclude congress from having any input on the treatment of enemy combatants; and quarter troops in US citizens' spare bedrooms. (Ok, I made up the last one, but he probably just neglected to think of it).

While being repudiated by the current Justice Dept., they attempt to explain away these egregious claims as a product of lawyers confronting “novel and complex questions in a time of great danger and under extraordinary time pressure.” So when else do civil liberties get tossed on the fire of expediency and self-defense? When things are going great and you've got lots of time to think about it? The fact that Yoo now has a position teaching law at Berkeley is sickening to me.