Prof M Cohn: No War Criminal for Supreme Court

[understandinglife]

Alberto Gonzales should not sit on the United States Supreme Court. He should be indicted and tried as a war criminal.

Gonzales is the very one who, as White House counsel, advised Bush that the President need not follow the law. The Geneva Conventions, which Gonzales called "quaint" and "obsolete," are ratified treaties, and thus part of United States law under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.

Gonzales also counseled Bush on how to avoid prosecution for war crimes under the federal War Crimes Act.

Gonzales commissioned the August 1, 2002, memorandum by the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel that illegally redefined torture so narrowly that the pain caused by interrogation must include death, organ failure or serious impairment of body functions. Any treatment short of that would be allowed.

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From No War Criminal for Supreme Court by Marjorie Cohn

July 13, 2005

More at the link:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071305Y.shtml

Marjorie Cohn, a contributing editor to t r u t h o u t, is a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, executive vice president of the National Lawyers Guild, and the US representative to the executive committee of the American Association of Jurists.

My disregard for Gonzales is documented here:

http://www.velvetrevolution.us/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=145

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3134633

I have not changed my opinion of him, but what matters is Prof Cohn's cogent and expert opinion.

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[TahitiNut]

1. I heartily agree with Prof. Cohn.

Gonzales is an unindicted war criminal whose only rightful place in court is as a defendant.