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Andrew Cohen

Andrew Cohen is a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. He is also the Commentary and Analysis Editor at The Marshall Project, legal analyst for 60 Minutes, and chief analyst and legal editor for CBS Radio News.

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	Views Saturday, January 06, 2018 The Overton Window and Trump's Judges In its first year in power the Trump administration has done to the federal judiciary what it has done more broadly to American political discourse. It has moved the courts far to the right, beyond prior boundaries, by relentlessly nominating conservative ideologues, with and without appropriate... Read more
	Views Monday, June 26, 2017 Justice Kennedy Is the Bulwark Against a Conservative Counterrevolution It is the last Monday in June and I don’t know if Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is going to resign. Neither do you. This is yet another one of these insipid inside-Washington stories where the few people who know aren't talking and the many people who are talking don't know. One thing is... Read more
	Views Friday, February 10, 2017 Jeff Sessions Without Tears Now that Jeff Sessions has been confirmed as the next attorney general of the United States, now that he’s in charge of a Justice Department already embroiled in political controversy, now that he’s the first line of defense against a president whose business conflicts, and ties to Russia, are... Read more
	Views Wednesday, January 25, 2017 Okay. Let's Have That Investigation into "Voter Fraud" The scary part of the still-developing "voter fraud" story isn't that President Donald Trump evidently buys into a conspiracy theory that supports both his worldview and his ego. The scary part is that a majority of his fellow Republicans, and a significant number of Democrats, also evidently buy... Read more
	Views Tuesday, September 20, 2016 The Myth of Pervasive Voter Fraud One of the most distressing indications of failure in American journalism today is the release of a poll last week that reveals that nearly half of the country believes that voter fraud occurs “very or somewhat often.” Since there is no rational basis in law or fact for this belief, since you are... Read more
	Views Wednesday, July 15, 2015 When the President Goes to Prison When President Barack Obama goes to Oklahoma Thursday and enters the medium-security federal prison FCI-El Reno he will be entering the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Prisons, part of the Justice Department, a bureaucratic fiefdom that is nearly as sprawling as the Department of Defense and in many... Read more