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Commentary Cohn: The Uncommon Courage of Bradley Manning

Commentary, March, 02 2013 Marjorie Cohn
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“I believed if the public...could see this it could spark a debate on the military and our foreign policy in general as it applied to Iraq and Afghanistan”

Commentary Cohn: Hope Dies at Guantánamo

Commentary, June, 22 2012 Marjorie Cohn
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Like many men at Guantanamo, Latif went on a hunger strike to assert the only power he had in the face of utter hopelessness — the power to refuse food

Commentary Cohn: The Haditha Massacre: No Justice for Iraqis

Commentary, January, 31 2012 Marjorie Cohn
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Because rules of engagement are set at the top of the command chain, criminal liability extends beyond the perpetrator under the doctrine of command responsibility

Commentary Cohn: Close the Guantánamo Gulag

Commentary, January, 16 2012 Marjorie Cohn
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The abiding presence of the Guantánamo gulag is not simply illegal and immoral. It also continues to be a symbol of U.S. hypocrisy

Commentary Cohn: Lost in the Debt Ceiling Debate: The Legal Duty to Create Jobs

Commentary, August, 13 2011 Marjorie Cohn
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The debate about the debt ceiling should have been a conversation about how to create jobs

Commentary Cohn: Prisoners Strike against Torture in California Prisons

Commentary, July, 19 2011 Marjorie Cohn
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The torture of prisoners in U.S. custody isn’t confined to foreign countries

Commentary Cohn: The Need to Broaden Torture Prosecutions

Commentary, July, 09 2011 Marjorie Cohn
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"Brutalization doesn't work. Besides that, you lose your soul."

Commentary Cohn: The Responsibility to Protect – The Cases of Libya and Ivory Coast

Commentary, May, 18 2011 Marjorie Cohn
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Peaceful means were not exhausted before the military invasion began

Commentary Cohn: Torture Is Never Legal and Didn’t Lead Us to Bin Laden

Commentary, May, 15 2011 Marjorie Cohn
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Torture is illegal under all circumstances, even in wartime

Commentary Cohn: Bradley Manning Treatment Reveals Continued Government Complicity in Torture

Commentary, March, 26 2011 Marjorie Cohn
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Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is facing court-martial for leaking military reports and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks, is being held in solitary confinement in Quantico brig in Virginia.

Commentary Cohn: Stop Bombing Libya

Commentary, March, 22 2011 Marjorie Cohn
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Since Saturday night, the United States, France, and Britain have been bombing Libya with cruise missiles, B-2 stealth bombers, F-16 and F-15 fighter jets, and Harrier attack jets.

Commentary Cohn: U.S. Chickens Come Home to Roost in Egypt

Commentary, February, 03 2011 Marjorie Cohn
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Barack Obama, like his predecessors, has supported Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to the tune of $1.3 billion annually, mostly in military aid.

Commentary Cohn: Let’s Rally to Restore Peace

Commentary, November, 01 2010 Marjorie Cohn
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In their Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert effectively demonstrated how the media hypes fear.

Commentary Cohn: Israel Raid on Gaza Flotilla: US Failure to Condemn Despite UN Findings

Commentary, October, 16 2010 Marjorie Cohn
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JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says despite United Nations Human Rights Council findings that Israel clearly broke international law in its raid of the Gaza Strip Flotilla, the US has yet to condemn the ...

Commentary Cohn: Business as Usual in Iraq

Commentary, September, 14 2010 Marjorie Cohn
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Last week, President Obama ceremoniously announced that U.S. combat operations had ended in Iraq. As Democrats face an uphill battle in the upcoming midterm elections, Obama felt he had to make good on his campaign promise to move the fighting fro...

Commentary Cohn: California Assembly Votes to Report on Human Rights to U.N. Committees

Commentary, August, 22 2010 Marjorie Cohn
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On August 9, the California Assembly took the historic step of becoming the first state to agree to publicize the text of three ratified U.N. human rights treaties, and to submit the required reports to the State Department for consideration by th...

Commentary Cohn: Landmark Ruling Declares Prop 8 Unconstitutional

Commentary, August, 09 2010 Marjorie Cohn
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In a stunning, carefully crafted 136-page opinion, U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker held in Perry v. Schwarzenegger that California’s Proposition 8, which outlaws same-sex marriage, is unconstitutional.

Commentary Cohn: John McCain: ‘We Already Won That One’

Commentary, July, 27 2010 Marjorie Cohn
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On July 15, I attended a reception in Washington DC to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the normalization of relations between the United States and Vietnam. Geoff Millard and I spoke to Sen. John McCain. When Geoff introduced himself as chairman...

Commentary Cohn: Losing in Afghanistan

Commentary, July, 07 2010 Marjorie Cohn
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Last week, the House of Representatives voted 215-210 for $33 billion to fund Barack Obama’s troop increase in Afghanistan. But there was considerable opposition to giving the President a blank check...

Commentary Cohn: Israel Murders Human Rights Workers Delivering Humanitarian Aid

Commentary, June, 01 2010 Marjorie Cohn
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On Sunday, Israel murdered human rights workers who were attempting to deliver 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, because Gaza has been virtually cut off from the outside world by Israel. At least 19 people were reportedly kill...

Commentary 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.”

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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. ...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

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