- Paperback: 191 pages
- Publisher: Polipoint Press; 1 edition (Jun 28 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0977825337
- ISBN-13: 978-0977825332
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.1 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 363 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #778,680 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In "Cowboy Republic," Marjorie Cohn offers a penetrating analysis of the six most important ways in which the Bush administration has weakened the rule of law. Cohn, a respected legal scholar, details the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq; the policy of torture; war crimes; Guantanamo's kangaroo courts; unconstitutional laws; and the unlawful surveillance of American citizens. She concludes with practical ways to strengthen the rule of law domestically and internationally, including both political and legal remedies.
About the Author
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’s a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, immediate past president of the National Lawyers Guild, and the U.S. representative to the executive committee of the American Association of Jurists. Marjorie Cohn lectures worldwide and does frequent interviews for national and international media. , 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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33 of 35 people found the following review helpful
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Bush Administration Legal Record Eviscerated, July 5 2007
By D. Sevilla "Explorer" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law (Paperback)
What a well-reasoned legal analysis of Bush administration actions and policies. This administration is tried and found guilty. If you're looking for talking points to refute right-wing friends or talking heads, this book argues them for you in clear convincing language.
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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Restoring the Rule of Law, Aug 19 2007
By Eric A. Isaacson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law (Paperback)
Professor Marjorie Cohn provides a much needed review of the Bush administration's legal record - from launching a "preemptive" war on the basis of palpable falsehoods, to advocating and even practicing torture at Guantanamo and by proxy through "extraordinary renditions," to warrantless wiretaps and spying on Americans, to overreaching claims of executive power that ignore validly passed laws and upset the framers' careful balance of constitutional powers.Professor Cohn's book shows how an administration that claims a high regard for democracy and the rule of law has in truth demonstrated a deep-seated contempt for both -- explaining why the rest of the world is so fast losing faith in America and her ideals.
Professor Cohn's book should help Americans to come to terms with the harm that the Bush administration has done so far. And that, I believe, is a critical step to restoring our national decency and honor.
Eric Alan Isaacson
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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Cowboy Republic: Reader! Inform yourself with the very best.., July 12 2007
By Daniel N. Fox - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law (Paperback)
Daniel Ellsberg likes this book and so do I. Geoffrey Stone, foremost constitutional scholar, likes this book, and so do I.It is a scholarly and complete exposition of a vital subject, the ruination of our country both inside and outside. Ms. Cohn skillfully describes the Bush-led hollowing-out of our former constitutional liberties coupled with a catastrophic war. Marjorie Cohn, President of the National Lawyers Guild, an organization of lawyers who value human rights over property rights, uses the analytical abilities of a skilled lawyer and law professor to point the way out of the mess.
Ms. Cohn's writing makes you want to read on and on, and lay all other things aside until the book is read. How many books of any kind do that to you?
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