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Cohn: Obama: Ratify the Women's Convention Soon
Commentary, December, 06 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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Nearly 30 years after President Jimmy Carter signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the United States remains the only democracy that refuses to ratify the most significant treaty guaranteein...
Cohn: Guantánamo Justice After Seven Years
Znet Article, November, 24 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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Since the Bush administration began transporting men and boys to Guantánamo Bay in January 2002, it has tried to prevent them from presenting their cases before a neutral federal judge. Indeed, the naval base was turned into a prison camp precisel...
Cohn: Obama Spells New Hope for Human Rights
Znet Article, November, 10 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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Celebrations of Barack Obama’s election as President of the United States erupted in countries around the world. From Europe to Africa to the Middle East, people were jubilant. After suffering though eight years of an administration that violated ...
Cohn: A Palin Theocracy
Znet Article, September, 11 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate has invigorated a lackluster campaign. The media can’t stop talking about her. Given McCain’s age and state of health (his medical file was nearly 1,200 pages long), Pali...
Cohn: Preemptive Strikes Against Protest at RNC
Commentary, September, 03 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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In the months leading up to the Republican National Convention, the FBI-led Minneapolis Joint Terrorist Task Force actively recruited people to infiltrate vegan groups and other leftist organizations and report back about their activities. On May...
Cohn: End the Occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan
Znet Article, July, 29 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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So far, Bush's plan to maintain a permanent U.S. military presence in Iraq has been stymied by resistance from the Iraqi government. Barack Obama's timetable for withdrawal of American troops has evidently been joined by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri ...
Cohn: Scalia Cites False Information in Habeas Corpus Dissent
Commentary, June, 25 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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To bolster his argument that the Guantánamo detainees should be denied the right to prove their innocence in federal courts, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his dissent in Boumediene v. Bush: "At least 30 of those prisoners hitherto released from ...
Cohn: Supreme Court Checks and Balances in Boumediene
Znet Article, June, 20 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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After the Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited opinion upholding habeas corpus rights for the Guantanamo detainees, I was invited to appear on "The O'Reilly Factor" with guest host Laura Ingraham. Although she is a lawyer and former law cler...
Cohn: Supreme Court Checks and Balances in Boumediene
Znet Article, June, 16 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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After the Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited opinion, upholding habeas corpus rights for the Guantánamo detainees, I was invited to appear on The O'Reilly Factor with guest host Laura Ingraham...
Cohn: Hillary Invokes Assassination
Znet Article, May, 25 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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For weeks, pundits have speculated about why Hillary Clinton insists on remaining in the primary race when Barack Obama has all but clinched the Democratic presidential nomination. On Friday, Clinton answered that question. It appears she's waitin...
Cohn: "From the Department of Justice to Guantánamo Bay: Administration Lawyers and Administration Interrogation Rules"
Znet Article, May, 08 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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What does torture have in common with genocide, slavery, and wars of aggression? They are all jus cogens. That’s Latin for "higher law" or "compelling law." This means that no country can ever pass a law that allows torture. There can be no im...
Cohn: Musharraf Plays Bush for a Fool
Znet Article, April, 25 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency on November 3rd after the Pakistani Supreme Court indicated it would overturn the results of an illegitimate election that would have extended Musharraf's term as presiden...
Cohn: Preventing the Impending War on Iran
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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Rhetoric flowing out of the White House indicates the Bush administration is planning a military attack on Iran. Officials in Saudi Arabia, a close Bush ally, think the handwriting is on the wall. "George Bush's tone makes us think he has decide...
Cohn: Center for Constitutional Rights Supports National Lawyers Guild Call for Dismissal and Prosecution of John Yoo
Znet Article, April, 17 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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On April 1, a secret 81-page memo written by former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo in March 2003 was made public. In that memo, Yoo advised the Bush administration that the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel would not enf...
Cohn: Beware an Attack on Iran
Znet Article, March, 22 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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Is the Bush administration ramping up for an attack on Iran? The signs seem to point in that direction. On March 11, Navy Adm. William Fallon, commander of the U.S. forces in the Middle East, retired early because of differences with Washington on...
Cohn: Tortured Evidence: Injustice at Guantanamo
Znet Article, February, 19 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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The Bush administration has announced its intention to try six alleged al Qaeda members at Guantánamo under the Military Commissions Act. That Act forbids the admission of evidence extracted by torture, although it permits evidence obtained by cru...
Cohn: Injustice at Guantanamo: Torture Evidence and the Military Commissions Act
Znet Article, February, 15 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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The federal government is working overtime to try and clean up the legal mess made by the use of illegal interrogation methods...
Cohn: Senate Poised to Capitulate to Cheney's Fear-Mongering
Znet Article, January, 25 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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After a January 24 debate in the Senate on amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the Senate appears ready to capitulate once again to the Bush administration's agenda of sacrificing liberty for questionable security.
Cohn: The Torture Tape Cover-up: How High Does It Go?
Znet Article, December, 28 2007
Marjorie Cohn
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When the hideous photographs of torture and abuse emerged from Abu Ghraib in the fall of 2004, they created a public relations disaster for the Bush administration. The White House had painstakingly worked to capitalize on the 9/11 attacks by crea...
Cohn: Bush Still Spinning Nukes in Iran
Znet Article, December, 20 2007
Marjorie Cohn
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The unanimous conclusion of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, that Iran ceased pursuing a program of nuclear weapons in 2003, has dealt a severe blow to the Bush-Cheney agenda of forcible regime change in Iran. For several months, the rhetoric ...
