
Marjorie Cohn
Writer at Freelance
Writer, lecturer, commentator, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law
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1 week 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.
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3 weeks 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.
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3 weeks 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.
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3 weeks 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.
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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.
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