Law students at Yale University recently stood up in protest during a lecture by Jay Bybee, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals under the Bush administration. Bybee’s speech was organized by the Yale Federalist Society, an organization of both conservative and libertarian law students. The 25 law school students protested Bybee because he signed off on a controversial policy in 2002 for military interrogation and detention, referred to by critics as the “torture memo.” As Bybee stepped up to the podium for his speech, the protesting students stood up and sheathed their heads in black trash bags, in imitation of hooded military prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. A similar protest had previously occurred when Bybee spoke at Harvard.

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