Marjorie Cohn
Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, and deputy secretary general of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. Her latest book is, Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues. Previous books include: Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law and co-author of Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent (with Kathleen Gilberd); and an anthology, The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration and Abuse.
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Views Monday, August 19, 2019 The Foreign Policy Litmus Test for Democrats in 2020 On July 30, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan reported that the Afghan government and international military forces, primarily the United States , caused most of the civilian deaths in Afghanistan during the first six months of 2019. That’s more killings than those perpetrated in... Read more |
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Views Sunday, April 29, 2018 Protests Force Starbucks to Ditch ADL From Leading Anti-Racism Training After a video of the arrest of two African-American men sitting in Starbucks without buying anything went viral, Starbucks scheduled anti-racism training. But their inclusion of the Anti-Defamation League in the training provoked another outcry and Starbucks capitulated. On April 12, Rashon Nelson... Read more |
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Views Sunday, April 01, 2018 Trump Finds Fellow Bully in Bolton Nothing Donald Trump has done since his inauguration 14 months ago is more dangerous – to the United States, and indeed, to the world - than his selection of John Bolton for National Security Adviser. It is not surprising the president would feel most comfortable receiving advice from a fellow... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 21, 2018 Trump Makes the Crisis Worse for Palestinian Refugees One of the most consequential actions Donald Trump took during the first year of his presidency was to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December 2017. When the Palestinians predictably responded by pulling out of the US-led “ peace process ,” Trump retaliated by cutting US financial... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 09, 2017 The Vietnam War is Not History for Victims of Agent Orange Watching the Ken Burns-Lynn Novick 18-hour series, “The Vietnam War,” is an emotional experience. Whether you served in the US military during the war or marched in the streets to end it, you cannot remain untouched by this documentary. The battle scenes are powerful, the stories of US veterans and... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 18, 2017 Did Trump Commit High Crimes and Misdemeanors? Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has responded to the crescendo of outrage by appointing former FBI director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate "any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump''... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 27, 2017 Neil Gorsuch and the Deconstruction of the Administrative State When Donald Trump’s chief of staff Reince Priebus addressed the Conservative Political Action Committee in February, he identified two priorities of the administration: the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, and deregulation. It turns out that elevating Gorsuch to the Supreme Court... Read more |
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Views Sunday, March 19, 2017 Evaluate New Travel Ban in Light of International Law After a federal district court judge and a unanimous three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Donald Trump's Executive Order (EO) instituting a travel ban was likely illegal, the president suspended it and issued a new EO on March 6, 2017. On March 15, a federal judge... Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 04, 2017 Though Blocked for Now, Trump's Unconstitutional Muslim Ban Deserves Total Destruction On January 27, 2017, President Trump made good on his campaign promise to institute a ban on Muslims entering the US. Trump's executive order ("EO") is titled "Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States." The EO bars nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries from... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 25, 2017 The Injustices of Manning’s Ordeal After overseeing the aggressive prosecution and near-seven-year incarceration of Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, President Obama – in one of his last acts in office – commuted all but four months of her remaining sentence but ignored the fact that he had taken no action on the war crimes that... Read more |