Friday, May 22, 2009
Harold Koh's Terrifying Transnationalism
Meghan Clyne's article in the New York Post about Barack Obama's "perilous pick" for the top legal affairs job at the U.S. State Department is must reading--more than once. Judges should interpret the Constitution according to other nations' legal "norms." Sharia law could apply to disputes in US courts. The United States constitutes an "axis of disobedience" along with North Korea and Saddam-era Iraq.
Those are the views of the man on track to become one of the US government's top lawyers: Harold Koh.
President Obama has nominated Koh -- until last week the dean of Yale Law School -- to be the State Department's legal adviser. In that job, Koh would forge a wide range of international agreements on issues from trade to arms control, and help represent our country in such places as the United Nations and the International Court of Justice.
It's a job where you want a strong defender of America's sovereignty. But that's not Koh. He's a fan of "transnational legal process," arguing that the distinctions between US and international law should vanish.
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Friday, 22 May 2009
Obama Nominee for State Department Legal Adviser Says Islamic Law Could Apply in American Courts, Compares US to North Korea, Calls War on Terror 'Obsessive'
http://chinaconfidential.blogspot.com/
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