You go now. You been here four hour.
Posted on 05/30/2025 11:30:44 PM PDT by ransomnote
They don’t even pretend there’s not the deep state.
https://keywiki.org/Harold_Koh
Harold Hongju Koh served as the Legal Adviser of the Department of State. He was nominated to this position by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2009, and confirmed by the Senate on June 25, 2009.
2009 15th Anniversary Fundraiser “Rooted in Movement”
Standing Up for Justice Awardee Rep. Luis Gutierrez
In 2009, NAKASEC held a fundraiser called “Rooted in Movement.”[1],[2]
Standing Up for Justice Awardees
Deepak Bhargava, Center for Community Change
The Honorable Luis Gutierrez, U.S. House of Representatives
The Honorable Harold Koh, United States Department of State
Korean American Women In Need (KAN-WIN). . .
Phillip Burton Award
Harold Koh, Dean and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, was the recipient of the Phillip Burton Award, at the 2006 Phillip Burton Immigration & Civil Rights Awards, from the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, in the Bay Area.[3]
Obama appointment
In March 2009 Harold Koh was nominated[4]by the Obama administration for the position of Legal Advisor in the DOS and confirmed in June 2009.
A column in the March 31, 2009 online edition of Investor’s Business Daily IBD, entitled “Who Is Harold Koh?”, provided some details about how Koh viewed international law as being an important consideration in making and interpreting U.S. constitutional law. IBD termed Koh’s internationalist views and actions as being those of “an advocate of what he calls ‘transnational legal process’ and argues that that distinction between U.S. and international law should vanish.”
Koh, a former dean of the Yale Law School, according to IBD, thinks it is “appropriate for the Supreme Court to construe our Constitution in the light of foreign and international law” in its decisions.
On the death penalty, IBD quotes Koh as saying that “The evidence strongly suggests that we do not currently pay decent respect to the opinions of humankid 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.”
He has submitted amicus briefs in support of the argument that “international and foreign court decisions compelled the Supreme Court to strike down the Texas law (anti-sodomy laws), in the case “Lawrence v. Texas”.
Regarding Islamic Shariah law, IBD wrote that “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.’”
IBD also listed other leftist positions that Koh has taken on key issues, including the following:
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. {KW: It freed invaded Kuwait from Saddam Husseins forces}.
He supported the Sandinista move to get the International Criminal Court to force Congress to cut off funding of the Contras in Nicaragua. {KW: This funding helped the freedom fighters to continually defeat the Marxist army of the FSLN to the point that they were forced to agree to internationally monitored free elections, in which they lost decisively to the non-communist, democratic opposition forces}.
In 2004, after Operation Iraqi Freedom OIF 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.”
Koh did not get the position as the top Legal Advisor to the State Department.
Trump is a significant threat to the deep state
That’s why they tried to off him so many times.
Thanks.
These profs are a real piece of work.
Good info. Thank you for posting it.
I don’t know what this thing called “Harold Hongju Koh” is but it’s FULL OF $}{!T SPEWING OUT OF IT’S MOUTH !!!
The BIGGEST NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT EVER FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS THE demonratcommieblmantifaterrorscumfeminaziguanopathicpedophilegoatrapers THAT EXIST !!!
SOMEONE PLEASE CUT THIS DIP$}{!T’S TONGUE OFF AND SUPER GLUE & ADD SOME PL-400 CONSTRUCTION ADHESIVE TO ATTACH THE FINGERS TO IT’S FACE TO PREVENT ANY TYPING JUST FOR BACKUP.
Leftists always think the U.S. constitution is just a suggestion.
Leftists are not only an existential threat to the United States, they’re an existential threat to the world. They are the true national security threat anywhere and everywhere they gain a foothold in government and in a country’s culture. They simply corrupt and destroy everything good and viable they touch.
He obstructed investigations, covered up offenses and attacked investigators and the media.
The typical spin and dishonesty.
Well, they are pieces of something, but work is not it. 🤪
Nope - Trump is not.
I elected him to do this.
“If re-elected, could President Trump, by a single tweet, withdraw America from the United Nations, NATO, and every treaty and international organization to which the U.S. belongs?”
They talk like those would be bad things.
And will continue the attempts until success.
Everyone and anyone else who voted for him did so.
That’s why I keep him in my prayers every single day.
Well gosh, if our ELECTED representative(s) is not to have such power, then pray tell, who is?
That’s the part they don’t want to say out loud.
Lemme guess: The Yale University Press insists that he is?
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