Andrew Cohen

Andrew Cohen is a contributing editor at The Atlantic, 60 Minutes' first-ever legal analyst, and a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. He is also chief analyst for CBS Radio News and has won a Murrow Award as one of the nation's leading legal journalists. More

Andrew Cohen is a Murrow Award-winning legal analyst and commentator. He covers legal events and issues for CBS News' 60 Minutes and CBS Radio News and its hundreds of affiliates around the country. He is also a contributing editor at The Atlantic, where he focuses his writing upon the intersection of law and politics.He is the winner of the American Bar Association’s 2012 Silver Gavel Award for his Atlantic commentary about the death penalty in America and the winner of the Humane Society’s 2012 Genesis Award for his coverage of the plight of America’s wild horses. A racehorse owner and breeder, Cohen also is a two-time winner of both the John Hervey and O’Brien Awards for distinguished commentary about horse racing. Follow Andrew on Twitter at @CBSAndrew.

2010's Top 10 Must-Reads in the Law

2010's Top 10 Must-Reads in the Law

As the weather gets chillier, curl up with these highlights from the world of the law this year More »

Was Kanye West's Comment Really George W. Bush's Lowest Point?

Was Kanye West's Comment Really George W. Bush's Lowest Point?

Over the President's two terms, far worse things happened than a rap star's marring statement More »

Campaign 2010: No Way to Run a Democracy

Two years ago, almost to the day, I wrote a piece about Sarah Palin's unsettling ignorance of the work-product of the United States Supreme Court. Based upon Katie Couric's famous pre-election interview of the Republican vice-presidential candidate on the eve of the 2008 election, the column was titled "Democracy Demands Wisdom," which was self-explanatory then and remains so now. I came back to that simple concept--we need smarter, not dumber, elected officials in… More »

A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very-Bad Week in the Law

A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very-Bad Week in the Law

Christine O'Donnell's antics were just one of the many disheartening events this last week More »

OIG: FBI Inappropriately Tracked Domestic Advocacy Groups

OIG: FBI Inappropriately Tracked Domestic Advocacy Groups

The release of today's report finds that the Bureau used sloppy investigative tactics in the years following 9/11 More »

Hurricane Brooks: The Trial of the Century (Finally) Ends

Hurricane Brooks: The Trial of the Century (Finally) Ends

The salacious Long Island trial has sadly come to its dramatic end More »

Breathtaking: TV Replays 9/11's Live Coverage:

Breathtaking: TV Replays 9/11's Live Coverage:

Real time coverage of the World Trade Center attacks, depicting the final testimony of the pre-9/11 world More »

The Story of 9/11: 'Death, a Sudden, Wholesale Death'

The Story of 9/11: 'Death, a Sudden, Wholesale Death'

Commemorating the attacks with a list of names More »

Quayle the Younger: A Poor Start to a Political Career

Quayle the Younger: A Poor Start to a Political Career

You can't blame the son for the sins of the father. But how about blaming the father for the sins of the son? More »

Keeping the Garden in The Garden State

Keeping the Garden in The Garden State

Now's as good a time as any to break Atlantic City's stranglehold on New Jersey's policy makers More »

The Banning of the Bans on Same-Sex Marriage

The Banning of the Bans on Same-Sex Marriage

A venerated federal judge in Massachusetts blisters the Defense of Marriage Act with a ruling that looks like a prelude to what another federal may rule in California over Proposition 8 More »

NHL Playoffs: In Montreal, No Parade for Les Glorieux

NHL Playoffs: In Montreal, No Parade for Les Glorieux

The Canadiens lost in the Stanley Cup Eastern Conference Final, but some thought the team should be celebrated anyway More »

The Greatest Trial You've Never Heard Of

The Greatest Trial You've Never Heard Of

Salacious evidence and courtroom dramatics emerge in the David H. Brooks trial More »

Reasons to Cheer the Kagan Nomination

Reasons to Cheer the Kagan Nomination

An already-remarkable career ascends even further into the stratosphere; the oldest Justice gives way to the youngest. More »

McCain on Shahzad: No Miranda Rights? Really?

McCain on Shahzad: No Miranda Rights? Really?

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) continued his slow, shameful slide into political madness and legal contempt Tuesday when he declared that it would be a "serious mistake" for law enforcement officials to give a timely Miranda warning to an American citizen arrested in the United States for a domestic crime. In reaching his unfortunate and premature conclusion, it's likely the senator was helped along by the fact that the citizen in question, Times Square car bomb… More »

Incurious Bastards

Incurious Bastards

The Founding Fathers are revered because their ideas codified in the Constitution have held together so well over the long-term. By contrast, our leaders can't think past Election Day. More »

Why Kennedy Owns the Supreme Court

Why Kennedy Owns the Supreme Court

With Justice Stevens retiring, the already-powerful Anthony Kennedy will have more clout than ever More »

Stevens Retires: The End of "Old School" On the Court

Stevens Retires: The End of "Old School" On the Court

It has been easy to overlook United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and his contributions to the American legal scene. Indeed, he has been overlooked for much of his time on the Court -- a breathtaking 35 years -- two generations! -- from the dark days post-Watergate to the dark-days following the terror attacks upon America. He was unable to muster the votes and the doctrinal legacy of William Brennan. He was unwilling to scold and upbraid like… More »

Post Stevens: Round Up the Usual Suspects!

Post Stevens: Round Up the Usual Suspects!

The politics of replacing Justice John Paul Stevens More »

WTF? Leave Biden Alone

WTF? Leave Biden Alone

People say the f-word all the time, and Biden's a grown man. Get over it More »

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