Posted on 03/30/2009 5:10:18 AM PDT by Scanian
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.
What would this look like in a practical sense? Well, California voters have overruled their courts, which had imposed same-sex marriage on the state. Koh would like to see such matters go up the chain through federal courts -- which, in turn, should look to the rest of the world. If Canada, the European Human Rights Commission and the United Nations all say gay marriage should be legal -- well, then, it should be legal in California too, regardless of what the state's voters and elected representatives might say.
He even believes judges should use this "logic" to strike down the death penalty, which is clearly permitted in the US Constitution.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“No matter what obama says during the campaign, he will govern from the center....”
name-a-RINO
So lets just save an update point, so we can reset the crap to ZERO when we throw the trash out.
I thought that read “legal prick.”
The rest of the world thought Americans were stupid. Then they went to the voting booth and removed all doubt!
The news gets worse every day and the dark cloud hanging heavy over this country gets darker and wider by the day. When is someone/something going to stop this insanity?
This is but one more step to revolution. In the absence of Constitutional law American Citizens will have nothing to loose and Constitutional justice to gain.
Little bammie does not comprehend the forces he could unleash.
We're screwed!
For later
I thought Obama’s most perilous pick was Louisville for the Final Four...
The List, ping
INTREP - Globalization ALERT!
I think he does and that is what he has been programmed to do.
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