Marjorie Cohn

San Diego

Writer at Freelance

Writer, lecturer, commentator, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Articles

Veterans' 40-Day Fast to Protest Israel’s Starvation of Gaza Begins

4 weeks ago | laprogressive.com | Marjorie Cohn |Rob Maurer

“Having seen what war does … I simply have to do more than hold a sign at a demonstration,” said one veteran organizer. Members of Veterans For Peace begin the first week of a 40-day fast in support of Gaza on May 27, 2025.
Veterans Launch 40-Day Fast to Protest Israel’s Starvation of Gaza

4 weeks ago | smirkingchimp.com | Marjorie Cohn

— from Truthout As the death toll of Palestinians continues to rise and more than a half a million people in Gaza are on the brink of starvation, U.S.-based Veterans For Peace and several allied organizations have launched a 40-day “Fast for Gaza.”From May 22 to June 30, 600 people in the U.S. and abroad are fasting and demanding full humanitarian aid to Gaza under UN authority and an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel.
Veterans Launch 40-Day Fast to Protest Israel’s Starvation of Gaza

4 weeks ago | truthout.org | Marjorie Cohn |Samantha Borek

Part of the Series Human Rights and Global Wrongs As the death toll of Palestinians continues to rise and more than a half a million people in Gaza are on the brink of starvation, U.S.-based Veterans For Peace and several allied organizations have launched a 40-day “Fast for Gaza.”From May 22 to June 30, 600 people in the U.S. and abroad are fasting and demanding full humanitarian aid to Gaza under UN authority and an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel.
Stephen Miller’s Argument for Suspending Habeas Corpus Is Legal Garbage

1 month ago | scheerpost.com | Marjorie Cohn

By Marjorie Cohn / TruthoutIf White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is to be believed, Team Trump is poised to drive another stake through the heart of the Constitution. On May 9, Miller told reporters that the administration is considering whether to suspend the right to habeas corpus – known as “The Great Writ” – in immigration cases. Suspending habeas corpus, which allows individuals to challenge the legality of their detention in court, would be unconstitutional.
Stephen Miller’s Threat to Suspend Habeas Corpus Is Legal Garbage

1 month ago | laprogressive.com | Marjorie Cohn |Rob Maurer

Suspending the right to challenge the legality of one’s detention in court would shred a core tenet of the Constitution. If White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is to be believed, Team Trump is poised to drive another stake through the heart of the Constitution. On May 9, Miller told reporters that the administration is considering whether to suspend the right to habeas corpus – known as “The Great Writ” – in immigration cases.
Stephen Miller’s Argument for Suspending Habeas Corpus Is Legal Garbage

1 month ago | smirkingchimp.com | Marjorie Cohn

— from Truthout If White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is to be believed, Team Trump is poised to drive another stake through the heart of the Constitution. On May 9, Miller told reporters that the administration is considering whether to suspend the right to habeas corpus – known as “The Great Writ” – in immigration cases. Suspending habeas corpus, which allows individuals to challenge the legality of their detention in court, would be unconstitutional.
US and Hungary Stand Alone at ICJ in Favor of Israel’s Blockade on Gaza

1 month ago | smirkingchimp.com | Marjorie Cohn

— from Truthout Since March 2, Israel has blocked all food, medicine, fuel, and other relief from entering the besieged Gaza Strip, home to 2.1 million Palestinian people. “Israel is starving, killing and displacing Palestinians while also targeting and blocking humanitarian organizations trying to save their lives,” Ammar Hijazi, Palestine’s ambassador to the Netherlands, told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) during last week’s five-day hearing.
Orbán Investigated by ICC After Refusing to Arrest Netanyahu in Hungary

2 months ago | laprogressive.com | Marjorie Cohn |Rob Maurer

As a party to the ICC’s Rome Statute, Hungary is obliged to arrest suspected war criminals and send them to The Hague. In a shameless attempt to undermine international accountability for accused war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Hungarian President Viktor Orbán graciously hosted the architect of Israel’s 18-month genocide in Gaza on April 3.
Orbán Faces ICC Investigation After Refusing to Arrest Netanyahu in Hungary

2 months ago | truthout.org | Marjorie Cohn

Part of the Series Human Rights and Global Wrongs In a shameless attempt to undermine international accountability for accused war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Hungarian President Viktor Orbán graciously hosted the architect of Israel’s 18-month genocide in Gaza on April 3. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is now formally investigating Hungary’s blatant refusal to fulfill its legal obligation to arrest Netanyahu and send him to The Hague.
Appalled at Genocide Funding, 2,000 US Taxpayers Turn to the UN for Redress

2 months ago | laprogressive.com | Marjorie Cohn |Rob Maurer

Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG), a nongovernmental grassroots mass movement comprised of more than 2,000 taxpayers who have been protesting their congressional representatives’ votes to fund Israel’s genocide in Gaza, filed an unprecedented report with the UN Human Rights Council on April 7. “We have gone through all the channels open to us in our effort to stop U.S. officials from using our tax dollars to fund genocide.