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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 ...

Cohn: Guantanamo Detainees' Fate at Stake in Boumediene

Znet Article, December, 09 2007 Marjorie Cohn
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday in Boumediene v. Bush. Most of the 34 detainees whose fate hangs in the balance in this case were brought to Guantánamo after being picked up by bounty hunters or tribesmen in Afghanistan and ...

Cohn: Unrepentent, Bush Denies Torture

Znet Article, October, 11 2007 Marjorie Cohn
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Unrepentent, Bush Denies Torture

Cohn: Pursue Diplomacy, Not War, With Iran

Znet Article, September, 25 2007 Marjorie Cohn
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the United States has prompted an outcry, including...

Cohn: Erwin Chemerinsky and the Post-9/11 Attack on Academic Freedom

Znet Article, September, 16 2007 Marjorie Cohn
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Erwin Chemerinsky and the Post-9/11 Attack on Academic Freedom

Cohn: Bush Plans War on Iran

Znet Article, September, 03 2007 Marjorie Cohn
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The Sunday Times of London is reporting that the Pentagon has plans for three days of massive air strikes against 1,200 targets in Iran. Last week, Alexis Debat, director of terr...

Cohn: Turning Iraq Into Vietnam

Znet Article, August, 28 2007 Marjorie Cohn
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Turning Iraq Into Vietnam

Cohn: FISA Revised: A Blank Check for Domestic Spying

Znet Article, August, 11 2007 Marjorie Cohn
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Responding to fear-mongering by the Bush administration, the Democrat-led Congress p...

Cohn: Time for an Independent Counsel

Znet Article, July, 31 2007 Marjorie Cohn
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Congressional leaders are calling for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate possible perjury charges against Alberto Gonzales. As we saw during the Watergate scandal, the executive branch cannot be counted on to inve...

Cohn: Showdown Looming Over Executive Privilege

Znet Article, July, 26 2007 Marjorie Cohn
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Showdown Looming Over Executive Privilege

Cohn: Iraqis Will Be the Deciders

Znet Article, July, 20 2007 Marjorie Cohn
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Iraqis Will Be the Deciders

Cohn: Reining In an Out-of-Control Executive

Znet Article, July, 18 2007 Marjorie Cohn
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Our Founding Fathers created three separate but co-equal branches of government to check and bal...

Cohn: The Opportunistic Commuter-in-Chief

Znet Article, July, 07 2007 Marjorie Cohn
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The Opportunistic Commuter-in-Chief

Cohn: Gitmo and the Bogus 'Enemy Combatants' Trials Should Be Ceased Immediately

Znet Article, June, 09 2007 Marjorie Cohn
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In 2002, Donald Rumsfeld famously called the detainees at GuantÃ¡namo "the worst of the worst." G...

Cohn: The Unitary King George

Znet Article, June, 01 2007 Marjorie Cohn
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The Unitary King George

Cohn: Fighting Terror Selectively: Washington and Posada

Znet Article, May, 11 2007 Marjorie Cohn
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Since the 9/11 attacks, the Bush ...

Cohn: U.S. Attorneys and Voting Rights: The New Watergate

Znet Article, April, 13 2007 Marjorie Cohn
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U.S. Attorneys and Voting Rights: The New Watergate

Cohn: Coming Up Short on Habeas for Detainees

Znet Article, April, 05 2007 Marjorie Cohn
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The Bush administration has stopped the Supreme Court from giving the GuantÃ¡namo detainees their day in court - at least for now.In Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States, forty-five men challenged the constitutionality of the habeas cor...