Obama Pulls Another Radical Rabbit Out of His Hat and Plants Him in his Cabinet
Harold Koh, a former dean of Yale Law School, has been nominated by President Obama to be the State Department’s legal adviser.
Harold Koh believes in foreign precedent as a way to set the rule of law in the United States. He does not have a particular regard for the U.S. Constitution and has also considered a place for Sharia Law. He is a true believer of what he deems the “transnational legal process,” believing that the differences and disparities between U.S. law and International law should disappear.
Obama is also considering him as a possible U.S. Supreme Court appointee in the coming years. He would replace Ruth Bader Ginsberg nicely, since she is a progressive much like Harold Koh. However, Koh goes a little further than even Ginsberg and is a little more radical than she due to his beliefs in Sharia Law.
He also values the opinions of the world’s imams. A New York lawyer, Steven Stein, says Koh in 2007 told the Yale Club of Greenwich that “in an appropriate case, he didn’t see any reason why Shariah law would not be applied to govern a case in the United States.”
Koh thinks America is the bad guy on the world stage. He blasted Operation Desert Storm as a violation of international law despite the U.N.’s blessing. He supported the Sandinista move to get the International Criminal Court to force Congress to cut off funding of the Contras in Nicaragua.
In 2004, after Operation Iraqi Freedom had begun, Koh lumped the U.S. in with North Korea as part of an “axis of disobedience” regarding international law.
Koh says the Supreme Court is now divided between “nationalist” judges who believe our Constitution is the only one that counts and “transnationalists” who believe “we the people” should be changed to “we are the world.”
Here’s a small snapshot of his other stances and legal tendencies:
Koh believes laws of places like Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka should carry equal weight with the laws of Virginia and South Dakota, and that it’s “appropriate for the Supreme Court to construe our Constitution in the light of foreign and international law” in its decisions.
He also believes foreign law trumps U.S. law on issues such as the death penalty. Echoing Ginsburg, he has said: “The evidence strongly suggests that we do not currently pay decent respect to the opinions of humankind in our administration of the death penalty. For that reason (italics added), the death penalty should, in time, be declared in violation of the Eighth Amendment.”
In Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down that state’s anti-sodomy laws, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion cited a 1967 British parliamentary vote repealing laws against homosexual acts and a 1981 European Court of Human Rights decision that such laws were in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Agreeing with Kennedy, Koh himself filed an amicus brief in the case that argued that international and foreign court decisions compelled the Supreme Court to strike down the Texas law. Koh has also submitted an amicus brief to the Connecticut Supreme Court arguing that foreign precedents require recognition of a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
This man will be advising Hillary Clinton as she travel abroad to negotiate and speak with international leaders, some of which are our enemies, and some our allies. He could also be our next Supreme Court Justice…
I am totally blown away by President Obama’s pick of Harold Koh, for any position of power in the United States. His radical views are just frosting on the cake for what Obama is blantly about: tearing down America.
If our nations people would take the time to get a copy of the Qur’an at any book store and read it, they would readily see what nonsense and evil Islam actually is. Who cares that 1.5 billion people have been duped. Islam’s marching orders from the Qur’an are a deadly fraud descised as a religion. It is pure phoniness perpetrated by a degenerate thug Mohammad. And Harold Koh wants us the U.S. to bow to this phoniness is unbelievable. One can not get even part way through this peice of crap called a the Qur’an without realizing that Mohammad and Allah are the same. Mohammad is Allah puppet master and Kol wants us to consider this crap; this is again the ultimate of STUPID. Screw Obama and all his minions, we will never bow to this crap. I surely hop this dude gets impeached. He and all of his picks a pure disgrace to the human race.