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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/ . .
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 1, 2017 Trump Is Killing Record Numbers of Civilians
We can expect to see increasing numbers of civilian deaths as Trump continues the "war on terror" he inherited from his predecessors. Since Bush launched this war after 9/11, we have become more vulnerable to terrorism. Civilian killings heighten anger toward the United States and lead to stepped-up recruitment of those who would do us harm.
(8 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 10, 2018 Fierce Critic of Mueller Probe Now Has Power to Sabotage the Investigation
The day after the midterm elections, Donald Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions and appointed Trump loyalist Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general. Whitaker, who has criticized the Mueller probe in the past, could fire Robert Mueller or defang his investigation.
SHARE Tuesday, December 31, 2019 Palestinians Decry ICC Prosecutor's Delay of Israeli War Crimes Investigation
In a significant development for Israeli accountability, Fatou Bensouda, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), seeks to launch an investigation into war crimes committed in Palestine. Accountability for Israeli war crimes is long overdue.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 28, 2018 Protests Force Starbucks to Ditch ADL From Leading Anti-Racism Training
After an outcry over the inclusion of the Anti-Defamation League as a lead member of Starbuck's anti-racism training, the ubiquitous coffee shop backed down, as Marjorie Cohn reports for Consortium News.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 28, 2016 The Content of Donald Trump's Character
Though some anti-war Americans see hope that Donald Trump would pull back from foreign wars, they also must face his undeniable record of racial and sexist bigotry, writes Marjorie Cohn.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 6, 2016 Iraqi Woman Uses Chilcot Report in War Crimes Lawsuit against George W. Bush
Sundus Saleh, an Iraqi woman, first filed her lawsuit against George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and Paul Wolfowitz in September 2013. Alleging that the Iraq War constituted an illegal crime of aggression, Saleh filed the suit on behalf of herself and other Iraqis in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 13, 2017 A Preemptive Strike on North Korea Would Be Catastrophic and Illegal
As we stand on the precipice of a disastrous war, these are the right circumstances for Trump to meet with Kim Jong-un. If Trump were to successfully negotiate a peace treaty with North Korea, he would receive plaudits for being a real diplomat. The unthinkable alternative is military action that would cause the deaths of untold numbers of Koreans, Japanese people and Americans.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Challenging American Exceptionalism
Obama maintains a double standard for apologies to the families of drone victims. If you are western and hit by accident we'll say we are sorry. Americans don't see the images of the drone victims or hear the stories of their survivors. If we did, we might be more sympathetic to the damage our drone bombs are wreaking in our name.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, August 12, 2011 Lost in the Debt Ceiling Debate: The Legal Duty to Create Jobs
The debate about the debt ceiling should have been a conversation about how to create jobs. It is time for progressives to remind the government that it has a legal duty to create jobs, and must act immediately -- if not through Congress, then through the Federal Reserve.
(9 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 16, 2017 Trump Jr. Emails and Meeting With Russian Lawyer Are Probable Cause of Federal Crime
On June 9, Trump Jr., then campaign manager Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior advisor, met with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin, at Trump Tower. Trump Jr. arranged the meeting with the expectation of receiving negative information the Russian government supposedly had about Hillary Clinton.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 10, 2020 Team Trump Tried to Bully the ICC Into Dropping War Crimes Probe But Failed
in light of the Appeals Chamber's landmark decision holding that U.S. officials will be investigated for war crimes, we can expect escalating threats and retaliation against the ICC by the Trump administration.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 2, 2020 COVID-19: DOJ Seeks to Exploit Emergency to Detain People Indefinitely
Trump's Department of Justice is asking Congress to allow the attorney general to indefinitely detain people without trial in violation of the constitutional right of habeas corpus, writes Marjorie Cohn.
SHARE Tuesday, November 19, 2019 Trump Engaged in Witness Tampering During Ambassador's Testimony
As former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified in the House impeachment inquiry to evidence of abuse of power by Donald Trump, he tweeted insulting allegations against her in real time.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 30, 2020 Dershowitz Is Wrong -- Abuse of Power Is Grounds for Impeachment
Contrary to the overwhelming weight of scholarly legal thought, Dershowitz has claimed that "high crimes and misdemeanors" is limited to offenses prohibited by statute. He told senators that abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, for which Trump was impeached, are not grounds for impeachment.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 30, 2017 Trump's "America First" Security Strategy Imperils the US
Documentation of poverty in the United States is conspicuously absent from Trump's National Security Strategy (NSS). In fact, Pillar II of the NSS cites "unnecessary regulations" as problematic. Deregulation serves the interest of the wealthy. Since he took office, Trump has eliminated hundreds of regulations that protect health, safety and workers.
(10 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 20, 2021 Israel Isn't Entitled to "Self-Defense" Against the People Under Its Occupation
As Israel continues to pummel the Palestinian people with bombs and artillery shot into Gaza from troops amassed along its borders in preparation for a ground invasion the Biden administration has reaffirmed its unwavering support for Israel's war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinians.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 7, 2017 Sessions Is Wrong: There Is No Legal Justification for Ending DACA
More than 400 chief executives, many from the nation's largest corporations, signed an open letter urging Trump and Congress to protect the Dreamers. They predicted, "Our economy would lose $460.3 billion from the national GDP and $24.6 billion in Social Security and Medicare tax contributions" if DACA is ended.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, May 9, 2011 The Targeted Assassination of Osama Bin Laden
Osama bin Laden and the "suspected militants" targeted in drone attacks should have been arrested and tried in U.S. courts or an international tribunal. Obama cannot serve as judge, jury and executioner. These assassinations are not only illegal; they create a dangerous precedent, which could be used to justify the targeted killings of U.S. leaders.
(8 comments) SHARE Monday, May 29, 2017 The Meaning of Assange's Persecution
The long legal ordeal of Julian Assange -- and the continuing threats against the WikiLeaks founder -- make a mockery of the West's supposed commitment to press freedom and the public's right to know
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 26, 2015 The Tangle of US-Israeli Double Standards
For decades, U.S. administrations have engaged in linguistic gymnastics to avoid applying international law to Israel. Now, with the fig leaf of the two-state solution gone, President Obama must confront this tangle of double standards and double talk, says Marjorie Cohn.