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Cohn: Rwandan Arrest of U.S. Lawyer Motivated by Politics
Commentary, May, 30 2010
Marjorie Cohn
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Professor Peter Erlinder, noted criminal defense lawyer and past president of the National Lawyers Guild, was arrested Friday morning in Rwanda for “genocide ideology.”
Cohn: Can Kagan Fill Stevens’ Mighty Shoes?
Commentary, May, 09 2010
Marjorie Cohn
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As the Rehnquist court continued to eviscerate the right of the people to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens filed principled and courageous dissents.
Cohn: Arizona Legalizes Racial Profiling
Commentary, April, 29 2010
Marjorie Cohn
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The conservative "states' rights" mantra sweeping our country has led to one of the most egregious wrongs in recent U.S. history. New legislation in Arizona requires law enforcement officers to stop everyone whom they have "reasonable suspicion" t...
Cohn: Keeping Same-Sex Marriage in the Dark
Commentary, January, 16 2010
Marjorie Cohn
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On Wednesday, a conservative majority of the Supreme Court overturned a ruling made by a federal trial judge that would have allowed limited television coverage of a trial that will decide the fate of California's Proposition 8. The trial, which i...
Cohn: Obama's Af-Pak War is Illegal
Commentary, December, 22 2009
Marjorie Cohn
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President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize nine days after he announced he would send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. His escalation of that war is not what the Nobel committee envisioned when it sought to encourage him to make peace, not war.
Cohn: National Lawyers Guild and other human rights groups issue open letter to Eric Holder
Blog Post, October, 07 2009
Marjorie Cohn
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Press Release....
Cohn: The Legal Avenger
Znet Article, September, 28 2009
Marjorie Cohn
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On the legal front, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have few bigger enemies than Marjorie Cohn, a professor at San Diego's Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Cohn, president of the liberal National Lawyers Guild, is a leading voice demanding that memb...
Cohn: Legendary Lawyer Doris Brin Walker Dies; Represented Angela Davis, Smith Act Defendants
Commentary, August, 17 2009
Marjorie Cohn
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Doris “Dobby†Brin Walker, the first woman president of the National Lawyers Guild, died on August 13 at the age of 90. Doris was a brilliant lawyer and a tenacious defender of human rights. The only woman in her University of California Berke...
Cohn: Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent
Book, July, 05 2009
Rules of Disengagement examines the reasons men and women in the military have disobeyed orders and resisted the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It takes readers into the courtroom where sailors, soldiers, and Marines have argued that these wars are...
Cohn: Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam
Commentary, June, 16 2009
Marjorie Cohn
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From 1961 to 1971, the U.S. military sprayed Vietnam with Agent Orange, which contained large quantities of Dioxin, in order to defoliate the trees for military objectives. Dioxin is one of the most dangerous chemicals known to man. It has been re...
Cohn: Obama's Guantánamo Appeasement Plan
Commentary, May, 30 2009
Marjorie Cohn
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Two days after his inauguration, President Obama pledged to close Guantánamo within one year. The Republicans, led by Senators John McCain, Mitch McConnell and Pat Roberts, immediately launched a concerted campaign to assail the new president. ...
Cohn: Stanford Anti-War Alumni, Students Call for Condi War Crimes Probe
Commentary, May, 09 2009
Marjorie Cohn
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During the Vietnam War, Stanford students succeeded in banning secret military research from campus. Last weekend, 150 activist alumni and present Stanford students targeted Condoleezza Rice for authorizing torture and misleading Americans into th...
Cohn: Condi Channels Nixon: If the President Says So, It’s Not Illegal
Blog Post, April, 30 2009
Marjorie Cohn
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On April 27, Condoleezza Rice had a brief Q & A with some Stanford students...
Cohn: Torture Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11
Commentary, April, 25 2009
Marjorie Cohn
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When I testified last year before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties about Bush interrogation policies, Congressman Trent Franks (R-Ariz) stated that former CIA Director Michael Hayd...
Cohn: Spain Investigates What America Should
Znet Article, April, 07 2009
Marjorie Cohn
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A Spanish court has initiated criminal proceedings against six former officials of the Bush administration. John Yoo, Jay Bybee, David Addington, Alberto Gonzales, William Haynes and Douglas Feith may face charges in Spain for authorizing torture ...
Cohn: Memos Provide Blueprint for Police State
Commentary, March, 05 2009
Marjorie Cohn
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Seven newly released memos from the Bush Justice Department reveal a concerted strategy to cloak the President with power to override the Constitution. The memos provide "legal" rationales for the President to suspend freedom of speech and press; ...
Cohn: War Criminals, Including Their Lawyers, Must Be Prosecuted
Commentary, February, 21 2009
Marjorie Cohn
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Since he took office, President Obama has instituted many changes that break with the policies of the Bush administration. The new president has ordered that no government agency will be allowed to torture, that the U.S. prison at Guantánamo will...
Cohn: A Call to End All Renditions
Znet Article, February, 12 2009
Marjorie Cohn
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Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian residing in Britain, said he was tortured after being sent to Morocco and Afghanistan in 2002 by the U.S. government. Mohamed was transferred to Guantánamo in 2004 and all terrorism charges against him were dismissed ...
Cohn: Israel's Collective Punishment of Gaza
Commentary, January, 07 2009
Marjorie Cohn
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Since Israel began its war on Gaza 11 days ago, more than 560 Palestinians - about a quarter of them civilians - have been killed. Some two thousand Gazans, including hundreds of children, have been wounded. Israel's "Operation Cast Lead" marks an...
Cohn: Cheney Throws Down Gauntlet, Defies Prosecution for War Crimes
Znet Article, December, 18 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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Dick Cheney has publicly confessed to ordering war crimes. Asked about waterboarding in an ABC News interview, Cheney replied, “I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared.†He also said he stil...
