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Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, deputy secretary general of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, and a member of the National Advisory Board of Veterans for Peace.Her most recent book is Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues. See http://marjoriecohn.com/ . .
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 11, 2020 Assange Faces Extradition for Exposing US War Crimes
Three weeks of testimony in Julian Assange's extradition hearing in London underscored WikiLeaks's extraordinary revelation of U.S. war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guanta'namo Bay. But the Trump administration is seeking to extradite Assange to the United States to stand trial for charges under the Espionage Act that could cause him to spend 175 years in prison.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, February 29, 2016 Occupy Hillary Clinton's Wall Street Speeches
Why do voters need to know what Hillary told the banks? Because it was Wall Street that was responsible for the 2008 recession, making life worse for most Americans. We need to know what, if anything, she promised these behemoths. Big banks and large contributors don't give their money away for nothing. They expect that their interests will be well served by those to whom they donate.
SHARE Saturday, July 7, 2018 Indefinite Detention of Migrants Violates International Law
More than 1,000 applicants have been incarcerated for months or years with no resolution of their cases. Indefinite detention violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Refugee Convention and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 14, 2015 The Kunduz Hospital Atrocity
The U.S. bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, blipped on and off the mainstream media's radar, catalogued as just one more unfortunate mistake in the last 14 years of war. But there is probable cause to treat the atrocity as a war crime, writes Marjorie Cohn for TeleSUR.
SHARE Tuesday, February 8, 2022 Justice Breyer's Center-Right Record
An examination of Breyer's voting record in the areas of criminal justice and civil rights reveals that he has been out of step with his fellow liberals on the court.
SHARE Tuesday, January 10, 2017 Obama Belatedly Says No to Israel
If President Obama had confronted Israel over its illegal settlements earlier, he might have really achieved something, but his U.N. abstention as he heads out the door is better than nothing, observes Marjorie Cohn.
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 3, 2015 One Day Soon, That Drone Overhead May Be Pointing a Taser at You
Drones are increasingly used for surveillance in the United States. The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), which patrols almost half the Mexican border with drones, has loaned its drones to local agencies and other national agencies, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Drones were used 700 times for domestic surveillance between 2010 and 2012. Weaponized drones of any sort should be outlawed.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Tom Hayden, Courageous Warrior for Peace
The death of Tom Hayden at age 76 marked the passing of a major progressive leader who championed causes from civil rights to Vietnam War opposition to the environment, as Marjorie Cohn recalls.
SHARE Tuesday, March 28, 2017 Neil Gorsuch and the Deconstruction of the Administrative State
Gorsuch is a staunch, longtime conservative judge who, in spite of his refusal to tip his hand about his ideology, has taken positions that confirm his right-wing bona fides. His right-wing ideology and Bannon's frightening agenda would dismantle important protections and endanger us all.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 13, 2019 Bernie Sanders Proposes New Economic Bill of Rights
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders delivered a full-throated defense of democratic socialism in his June 12 speech at George Washington University. Sanders, like FDR, proposed an Economic Bill of Rights, including the rights to health care, affordable housing, education, a living wage and retirement. "Economic rights are human rights," Sanders declared. "That is what I mean by democratic socialism."
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 20, 2021 If Biden Wants to "Stand With the Cuban People," He Can Ease the Cruel Blockade
The corporate media have been bashing the Cuban government in response to the recent protests in Cuba, while President Joe Biden claims, "We stand with the Cuban people." But they ignore or minimize the leading cause of economic suffering in Cuba: the U.S.'s illegal and punishing economic blockade that Biden has left in place.
SHARE Wednesday, December 23, 2020 After Trump Blocked UN Inquiry of Racist Violence, NGOs Are Conducting Their Own
Shortly after the public lynching of George Floyd, the U.S. Human Rights Network and the ACLU organized an international coalition of more than 600 organizations and individuals to urge the United Nations Human Rights Council to convene a commission of inquiry to investigate systemic racism and police brutality in the United States.
SHARE Tuesday, May 17, 2016 Michael Ratner's Death Is a Loss for Freedom, Peace and Justice
Michael will probably be best remembered for his victory in gaining the right to habeas corpus for U.S. detainees held in Cuba at Guantanamo. Michael was lead counsel in the 2004 case of Rasul v. Bush, in which the Supreme Court upheld the right of those detained as "enemy combatants" at Guantanamo to have their petitions for habeas corpus heard by U.S. courts.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, November 6, 2015 Obama's Criminal Drone War
President Obama has relied on the lethal drone program as a "low cost" way to eliminate "terrorists," but the project has institutionalized an imprecise strategy of human slaughter that violates international law and creates more enemies, writes Marjorie Cohn at Truthdig.
(12 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 12, 2018 Public Pressure Could Halt US Support of Yemen War
Notwithstanding deeply entrenched US support for Saudi Arabia, outrage over the Saudis' torturous murder of Khashoggi, as well as campaigns by several progressive groups, have galvanized congressional opposition to US assistance for Saudi killing in Yemen.