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John Yoo

John Yoo is the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

NR PLUS Law & the Courts

Why Texas Cannot Treat Illegal Immigration as an ‘Invasion’

By John Yoo November 18, 2022

The border crisis is real, but the Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, forbids states from interfering with border control or immigration.

NR PLUS Law & the Courts

The Intellectual Legacy of Judge Laurence Silberman

By John Yoo October 4, 2022

The country has lost a great public servant, who was also a great mentor and friend to many in law and politics.

NR PLUS White House

Why the Public Is Skeptical of Garland’s Mar-a-Lago Story

By John Yoo & Robert J. Delahunty August 13, 2022

There are at least four legitimate reasons Americans think something crassly political has just transpired.

NR PLUS Politics & Policy

Dobbs May Represent the Big Bang for Abortion Politics

By Steven F. Hayward & John Yoo June 9, 2022

Post-Roe, the abortion issue will likely heat up at every level of government as we enter into a period of greater instability and conflict.

NR PLUS Law & the Courts

What the Dobbs Draft Opinion Doesn’t Do

By Steven F. Hayward & John Yoo June 1, 2022

Far from radical, the opinion is actually modest in scope — leaving conservatives still in need of an alternative theory of rights.

NR PLUS Politics & Policy

How Dobbs Could Rattle the Left, Rev Up the Right, and Restore the American System

By Steven F. Hayward & John Yoo May 25, 2022

The leak and the draft opinion itself remind us that we must preserve the line between politics and the law.

NR PLUS Law & the Courts

The Leaked Dobbs Opinion Would Be a Credit to the Supreme Court and to the Country

By Steven F. Hayward & John Yoo May 12, 2022

The Court appears to have taken the first step toward restraining itself and repairing both the legal and political defects of its privacy jurisprudence.

NR PLUS National Security & Defense

Iran Cannot Be Trusted to Respect a Revived Nuclear Deal

By John Yoo March 30, 2022

The Biden administration has plenty of evidence that the regime has no credibility when it makes promises for a deal that cannot be enforced.

NR PLUS National Security & Defense

How to Help Ukraine: Unlearn the False Lessons of the Cold War

By John Yoo March 19, 2022

America prevailed against the USSR by risking conflict, not by creating a force field around a battlefield within which the Russians could do as they pleased.

NR PLUS Elections

The Electoral Count Act Debate Understates the Vice President’s Role

By John Yoo & Robert J. Delahunty February 28, 2022

Whatever roles the Constitution may assign to the states, the vice president, or the federal courts in resolving disputed electoral votes, it excludes Congress.