{"id":3585,"date":"2007-05-21T14:17:15","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T21:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/21\/scott-horton\/"},"modified":"2007-05-23T19:34:53","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T02:34:53","slug":"scott-horton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/21\/scott-horton\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Horton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanrightsfirst.org\/\">human rights attorney<\/a> and author of the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpers.org\/subjects\/NoComment\">No Comment<\/a>  at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpers.org\/\">Harpers.org<\/a>, <em>The Other<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpers.org\/subjects\/ScottHorton\">Scott Horton<\/a> (no relation), discusses the revolution within the form of American government that has occurred in the last six years in the name of the all powerful &#8220;Unitary Executive&#8221;: Kidnapping, torture, massive domestic wiretapping, the replacement of U.S. attorneys who don&#8217;t do a good enough job prosecuting Democrats, and why Goerge Washington&#8217;s system was better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissentradio.com\/radio\/07_05_21_horton.mp3\"><strong>MP3 here<\/strong><\/a>. (40:31)<\/p>\n<p>Scott Horton is a contributor to <em>Harper&#8217;s<\/em> magazine and writes the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpers.org\/subjects\/NoComment\">No Comment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A New York attorney known for his work in emerging markets and international law, especially human rights law and the law of armed conflict, Horton lectures at Columbia Law School. A life-long human rights advocate, Scott served as counsel to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpers.org\/subjects\/AndreiSakharov\">Andrei Sakharov<\/a> and Elena Bonner, among other activists in the former Soviet Union. He is a co-founder of the American University in Central Asia, and has been involved in some of the most significant foreign investment projects in the Central Eurasian region. Scott recently led a number of studies of abuse issues associated with the conduct of the war on terror for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcny.org\/\">New York City Bar Association<\/a>, where he has chaired several committees, including, most recently, the Committee on International Law. He is also a member                                                 of the board of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nimj.org\/home.aspx\">National Institute of Military Justice<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/asf.wdn.com\/\">Andrei Sakharov Foundation<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurasiagroup.net\/\">EurasiaGroup<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambranch.org\/\">American Branch of the International Law Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidency Unbound, The Unitary Executive in Practice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3585"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}