OBAMA'S MOST PERILOUS LEGAL PICKr

NY Post ^ | 03/30/2009 | Free America

[Free America52]

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.

[Free America52]

This bears watching very closely. Please spread this info all over the place.

[WellyP]

Over my dead body! ONE LAW FOR EVERYONE! “F” the Muzzies!

[razorback-bert]

until last week the dean of Yale Law School

Sad fact.

[Thrownatbirth]

I could only find illegal pickrs.

[supremedoctrine]

Even sadder fact in that it suggests he already quit Yale for the Obambi Administration job.

[Bearshouse]

How many more assaults to our constitution can we abide?

How many more is this administration going to test us with?

All rhetorical - no answer required

[uscabjd]

What distinctions of US law should vanish in order to adopt world law? American criminal procedure is unique, and uniquely pro-accused. Do we give up the right to a jury trial? And whose law do we implement instead? N Korea? Islam? Frankly, US law is MUCH more liberal in terms of human rights than the rest of the world.

[Arguendo]

On the plus side, this is a slap in the face to both Koh and Yale Law School since Elena Kagan, dean of Harvard Law School, was given the far-more-prominent Solicitor General appointment.

[a fool in paradise]

The money quote:

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.