What do you stand for?
When he announced the commutation of Scooter Libby’s 30-month sentence, George W. Bush cited the ways Libby has and will suffer: damage…
Marjorie Cohn
Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, dean of the People’s Academy of International Law, and past president of the National Lawyers Guild. She sits on the national advisory boards of Assange Defense and Veterans For Peace. A member of the bureau of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, she is the U.S. representative to the continental advisory council of the Association of American Jurists. Her books include Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues.
In 2002, Donald Rumsfeld famously called the detainees at Guantanamo ‘the worst of the worst.’ General Richard B. Myers, former chairman of…
As the nation focused on whether Congress would exercise its constitutional duty to cut funding for the war, Bush quietly issued an…
Since the 9/11 attacks, the Bush administration has made the ‘war on terror’ the centerpiece of its domestic and foreign policy. Bush…
The Bush administration is shocked, shocked, that the firing of a few U.S. attorneys has caused such a stir in Washington. After…
The Bush administration has stopped the Supreme Court from giving the Guantanamo detainees their day in court – at least for now.…
The Bush administration has stopped the Supreme Court from giving the Guantanamo detainees their day in court – at least for now.…
Last year, Republican Senator Arlen Specter slipped a clause into the reauthorized USA Patriot Act that allows Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to…
On March 6, the court-martial will begin in Germany for Army Specialist AugustÃn Aguayo, who faces up to seven years in prison…
Last week, in Boumediene v. Bush, two judges on a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the provision…