Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law

by Marjorie Cohn (Author), Richard Falk (Foreword)

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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.

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Marjorie Cohn's Cowboy Republic is a passionate and compelling indictment of the Bush administration's often blatant disregard of both constitutional and international law. It s also an important cautionary tale about the perils that can befall a democracy when the arrogance of power outstrips the reasoned constraints of the law. --Geoffrey Stone, University of Chicago Law School

Marjorie Cohn has always been good at explaining how powerful elected officials violate our democratic rights. Cowboy Republic is her best effort yet. From an illegal aggressive war in Iraq to torture, here it all is--the six major ways the Bush administration has made America an outlaw state. --Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights

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. --Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

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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Publisher : Polipoint Press (June 28, 2007)
Language : English
Paperback : 191 pages
ISBN-10 : 0977825337
ISBN-13 : 978-0977825332
Item Weight : 9.4 ounces
Dimensions : 5.55 x 0.55 x 8.47 inches

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mesa maestro

How the decider-in-chief is breaking the law.

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2007

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Marjorie Cohn, a law professor from San Diego and the head of the National Lawyers Guild, lays out the evidence in a scathing indictment of the current president and his administration. Professor Cohn explains step by step so that anyone, with or without a legal background can understand just exactly what is happening to our country. She explains how the president and his minions lied to the American people to "sell" the war in Iraq, how the executive sanctions torture and murder, how our civil liberties are being threatened and actually taken away and most importantly, in my mind, how the president refuses to enforce the laws he disagrees with and sets himself up as a constitutional scholar interpreting the law to decide which laws are constitutional and which are not. This is a usurpation of power that is unprecedented in this country and is startling in the fact that Congress has become complicit in this "crime." The president has refused to enforce more than 750 laws acording to one article cited by Professor Cohn, by using signing statements in approving laws he objects to rather than simply vetoing them. These statements have been used by other Presidents to explain how the law in question will benefit the American people but in Bush's hands they are used interpret Congress's intent, a violation of the separation of powers, among other problems. Please read this book. Nothing could be more important, regardless of your political affiliation.

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ron

Very good read!

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2013

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Great book! For anyone with an open mind this book is a must read. The product was as good or better than described.

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T. Washington

Criticism from a poisoned source but still valid!

Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2014

Whilst I am inclined to be suspicious of any public pronouncements by the likes of the National Lawyers Guild(see its "Wikipedia" entry) due to its pro- Soviet and anti-Western bias during the Cold War (1946-1991), just as even a broken clock can be right twice a day, this book's conclusion that the Bush Administration played fast and loose with Constitutional protections during the "War On Terror" seems valid.
The only question is:will Obama or his successor(Hillary Clinton?) have the balls to nail "Dubya" and his minions to the wall or will they conclude that the "nation cannot afford yet another failed Presidency"( I am not certain what this concept means)?

"Fiat rua justitia caelum"- let justice be done though the heavens fall!"- was once the proudest boast of Anglo-American jurisprudence, but it seems to have been in practice replaced by the bitch goddess of Realpolitik- "we must be realists my dear chap!"

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Eric Alan Isaacson

Restoring the Rule of Law

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2007

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

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Daniel N. Fox

Cowboy Republic: Reader! Inform yourself with the very best..

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2007

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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DonnaE

Bush Administration Legal Record Eviscerated

Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2007

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.

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Stuart Gold

Fodder for the Bush-haters

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2009

That's all this book is. I had the fortune (?) of a very liberal friend lending it to me, and it's pretty much what I expected - a polemic tome from an extreme leftist who obviously wanted to vent on the Administration she hates so much. Her "Six Ways...) are largely nonsense but the truly disturbing point is that she seems to negate the pain and death rained upon us on Sept. 11, 2001, and apparently discounts further threats from the Islamic Jihadism that most reasonable people from center-right to center-left acknowledge. Nor does she admit that valuable intelligence was obtained by coercive interrogation, and that the measures Bush put in place have kept us safe since since 9-11. I'm glad I didn't actually purchase this book, and will not even read her upcoming tome on how a few in the military "gallantly" disobey orders designed to protect her and other Americans. If there was a "no star" designation that would be my rating.

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