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Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law
by Marjorie Cohn

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Author: Marjorie Cohn
Foreword: Richard Falk
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-06-28
ISBN: 0977825337
Number of pages: 191
Publisher: Polipoint Press

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Book Review: How the decider-in-chief is breaking the law.
Summary: 5 Stars

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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