Cowboy Republic describes the six most important ways the Bush Administration has weakened the rule of law. Marjorie Cohn explains what we can do to remedy the administration’s breaches of statutory, constitutional, and international law including political and legal remedies.
Marjorie Cohn lectures throughout the world and provides legal and political commentary on human rights and U.S. foreign policy for CBS News, Court TV, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, Air America, and Pacifica Radio. She is president of the National Lawyers Guild and a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she teaches criminal law and procedure, evidence, and international human rights law. A longtime criminal defense attorney, she co-authored Cameras in the Courtroom: Television and the Pursuit of Justice. She is an MWC News Magazine senior editor, a contributing editor to Guild Practitioner and Jurist, and a frequent columnist for AlterNet, HuffingtonPost, Counterpunch, CommonDreams, GlobalResearch, OpedNews, AtlanticFreePress, AfterDowningStreet, Buzzflash and ZNet.
The 2005 recipient of San Diego County Bar Association’s Service to Legal Education Award, Professor Cohn was named one of San Diego’s top attorneys in academics for 2006, was recognized as one of San Diego’s Top Attorneys in Academics for 2006, and was awarded the 2007 Bernard E. Witkin, Esq. Award for Excellence in the Teaching of the Law by the San Diego Law Library Justice Foundation. She was a legal observer in Iran on behalf of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers in 1978 and has participated in delegations to Cuba, China, and Yugoslavia.
Praise for Cowboy Republic
William Fisher | Marjorie Cohn’s Justice Gene
By William Fisher
t r u t h o u t | Book Review
Tuesday 11 September 2007
The past six years have seen an avalanche of books excoriating President George W. Bush, the key figures in his administration, and the ideologies, policies and practices they have embraced.
Some have been eye-opening blockbusters, like Bob Woodward’s “State of Denial.” Others have found themselves in the remaindered section of your bookstore. Some, like Woodward’s, have been long and dense, tough reads filled with incriminating quotes from The Decider himself. Others have been often-inaccessible offerings by serious journalists in military history, like Tom Ricks of The Washington Post (“Fiasco”) and Michael Gordon of The New York Times (“Cobra II”). A few have genuinely illuminated little-known and underreported aspects of the Bush administration; “Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone” by Rajiv Chandrasekaran springs to mind. So too does David Cole’s “Enemy Aliens.” Too many others have forsaken solid evidence and confirmed sources to deliver oversimplistic rants, more akin to pamphleteering on rhetorical steroids… Read More
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