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.

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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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For Immediate Release October 2007

Less than one month ago, formal articles of impeachment (HR 333) were introduced in
the U.S. House of Representatives against Vice President Dick Cheney for the commission
of “high crimes and misdemeanors.”

Has President George W. Bush himself also broken the law? You bet.

In her new book, COWBOY REPUBLIC: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law
(PoliPointPress, $14.95, July 2007, ISBN: 978-0-9778253-3-2), Marjorie Cohn, President
of the National Lawyers Guild and a leading law professor, describes the six most
important ways the Bush Administration has broken, defied, and weakened the rule of law.

These six arguments, written by a lawyer and accessible to a layperson, make a clear case
for the prosecution of criminal charges against the president and his gang for breaking U.S.
and international laws. Professor Cohn uses her expertise as a lawyer and an educator to
make a case against the Bush administration for wrongful war, torture, spying and other
illegal acts perpetrated in the name of the so-called war on terror.

Daniel Ellsberg, himself intimately familiar with the consequences of unchecked executive
power, says “This devastating, utterly compelling account of the crimes and usurpations of
the Bush administration will convince all but the perpetrators themselves of the urgent need
not only for investigations and prompt impeachments, but also for criminal prosecutions.”

Cowboy Republic addresses such malfeasance as torture-by-proxy, free-fire zones,
summary execution, mining personal data and a whole lot more. Geoffrey Stone, former
Dean of University of Chicago Law School, calls Cowboy Republic “an important
cautionary tale about the perils that can befall a democracy when the arrogance of power
outstrips the reasoned constraints of the law.”

Marjorie Cohn is the president of the National Lawyers Guild and a law professor at
Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, CA. She is news consultant for CBS News
and a legal analyst for Court TV. She also provides legal and political commentary on
BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR and the Pacifica Radio Network. She lectures
throughout the world on international human rights and U.S. foreign policy and was chosen
to receive the San Diego Law Library Justice Foundation’s Witkin Award for top legal
educator of the year.

Contact:
Carol Cecchini
(415) 339-4111
c.cecchini@p3books.com