Court Watch
This blawg, updated a few times per month, comments on the executive branch, trials of terrorists and U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
Author: Andrew Cohen CBS News' chief legal analyst, writes a regular law column for the Washington Post and authors Bench Conference.
Blawg Related Categories: Executive Branch • Terrorism • Trials & Litigation • U.S. Supreme Court • Legal News Publication
Recent Posts from Court Watch
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Not Your Father"s Court
As they have every term over the past few decades, the Supreme Court Justices once again sided in most cases with employers over employees, with big business over consumers, and with the government over individuals.…
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Second Amendment: Unlocked And Loaded
The Supreme Court"s recognition of an individual Second Amendment right necessarily leaves open central questions about how far that right goes when it butts up against government regulation. The litigation has just begun, says Andrew…
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Sex And Death In Texas
Barring last-minute intervention, Texas is prepared to execute Charles Dean Hood, who was convicted and sentenced to death nearly two decades ago by a judge who allegedly was sleeping with the prosecutor during the trial.…
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McCain Takes Gitmo Ruling Personally
Why would the normally stoic Senator and candidate for the nation's highest office become so hyperbolic about a ruling that, at its essence, strengthens the vitality of the "Great Writ" of habeas corpus - a…
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Four Strikes, You"re Out
For the fourth time in four years the Supreme Court has told the White House and Congress that rules created to fully and fairly treat Guantanamo Bay terror suspects are insufficient. Andrew Cohen says legal…
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Gitmo's Second Verse Same As The First
We"ve heard this song before. The religious rants and political taunts from the terror big shots at Guantanamo Bay.
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Cohen: Flacks Follow-Up
"Sure, I live in a glass house and I threw a stone," writes Andrew Cohen of the response his essay on the PR industry and Scott McClellan. "But consider it a wake-up call."
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The Flak Over Flacks
CBS News Legal Analyst Andrew Cohen offers an opinion this morning about a certain new book, and the firestorm among PR people about the "ethics" of the truth.
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Justice In A Time Of Terror
It"s too late for the current White House or Democrat-controlled Congress to redeem themselves in the legal war on terrorism. But the next president and Congress will have an opportunity to steer a more sensible…
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Jury of Judges Still Out On Gay Marriage
What we have just witnessed in California is a disparate group of judges struggle with a painfully close legal question that reasonable people could and do disagree upon, CBS News chief legal analyst Andrew Cohen…