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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: 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: 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: 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: 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 ...
