From Marjorie Cohn’s Blog Seventeen human rights and civil rights organizations and 45 prominent lawyers and civic leaders have sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder last week urging him to…
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What Could Change the Tide? A Strong Anti-War Movement
Marjorie Cohn, interviewed by Randy Dotinga From Randy Dotinga: “On the legal front, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have few bigger enemies than Marjorie Cohn, a professor at San Diego’s Thomas…
Stanford Anti-War Alumni, Students Call for Condoleezza Rice War Crimes Probe
By Marjorie Cohn During the Vietnam War, Stanford University students succeeded in banning secret military research from campus. Last weekend, 150 activist alumni and present Stanford students targeted Condoleezza Rice for authorizing…
Bush Memos Reveal Policy of Cruelty: Obama Refuses to Enforce the Law
By Marjorie Cohn In response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the ACLU, President Obama released four Bush-era memos that describe unimaginably brutal techniques and provide “legal” justification…
Spain Investigates What America Should
By Marjorie Cohn A Spanish court has initiated criminal proceedings against six former officials of the Bush administration. John Yoo, Jay Bybee, David Addington, Alberto Gonzales, William Haynes and Douglas Feith may…
Newly Released Secret Memos Provide the Blueprint for Bush’s Police State
by Marjorie Cohn John Yoo and Jay Bybee, the memos’ authors, should be investigated, prosecuted, and disbarred. Seven newly released memos from the Bush Justice Department reveal a concerted strategy to…
End the Occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan
By Marjorie Cohn So far, Bush’s plan to maintain a permanent U.S. military presence in Iraq has been stymied by resistance from the Iraqi government. Barack Obama’s timetable for withdrawal of American…
Testimony of Marjorie Cohn
Testimony of Marjorie Cohn before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties House Judiciary Committee What does torture have in common with genocide, slavery, and wars of aggression? They…
An Independent Prosecutor Should Investigate the Architects of the White House Torture Policy
By Marjorie Cohn, Jurist Legal News and Research This is an excerpt from Marjorie Cohn’s recent testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties…
Why John Yoo and Other Top Administration Lawyers Should be Investigated for War Crimes
Why John Yoo and Other Top Administration Lawyers Should be Investigated for War Crimes Under U.S. Law Torture is Always Illegal By Marjorie Cohn What does torture have in common with genocide,…