Posted on 03/31/2009 5:49:09 PM PDT by Kaslin
Law: President Obama's nominee for State Department legal adviser could be a future Supreme Court pick. He believes U.S. law should be based on foreign precedent, and even Shariah law could find a home here.
In a speech in South Africa, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called the March 2005 Roper v. Simmons decision, in which a 5-4 majority ruled against executing murderers who were 17 or younger, "perhaps the fullest expressions to date on the propriety and utility of looking to the 'opinions of (human)kind.' "
More recently, Justice Stephen Breyer said: "We see all the time . . . how the world really . . . is growing together. The challenge (will be) whether our Constitution . . . fits into the governing documents of other nations." Whether our Constitution fits?
Agreeing with Ginsburg and Breyer is one Harold Koh, a former dean of Yale Law School who's been nominated by President Obama to be the State Department's legal adviser. He's an advocate of what he calls "transnational legal process" and argues that the distinction between U.S. and international law should vanish.
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.
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agree.
you hafta wonder about today’s liberals.
So if a Sri Lanka judge decides its okay to carry weapons, ban abortion, imprison homosexuals and kill fox from helicopters we should use that as a precedent?
We’ve always had crazy people, just not this many leading our country to hell.
Koh is a nutcase. He’s more a court jester than a court leader.
Bohica. That right friends. Ehoever Obama picks we know that the Republicans will BOHICA and allow it to happen.
Ths is good news, the last time IBD did a “Who is... “ article is was “Who is Thomas Saenz ?” andafter that he was gone.
But he’s the kind of crazy person that this adminstration sees fit to appoint to set our standards, directions and future.
I can’t believe this is happening to our beloved USA. God save us from the Obama administration.
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."
To reiterate:
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."
Thanks
I see another SHEET HEAD on the horizon!
Many thanks, LucyT
Ping.
I certainly the pubbies get a backbone and block his nomination.
Yes, he seems to be a good fit for the Obama administration.
Truly disturbing and thanks for the ping Oorang.
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The State Department has been pushing policies to make our USA a third-world failure for years. Now, Omama wants to put in Harold Koh as its legal adviser to make State an even worse swamp.
Wake up citizens, our shining city on a hill is being destroyed from within by traitors. Arise, and defend our Constitution, our republic and our freedoms.
Thanks for the ping.
It just gets crazier and crazier.
does he pay his taxes? if not, everything is in place for him
As Scalia has pointed out, "foreign law" is just a pretext for trying to legitimate one's own prejudices. You can find everything you want (or don't want) in foreign law.
So what are the criteria for picking and choosing from among the laws of other nations?
“....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.”
***I don’t think I’d like to know what ‘he’ would consider an appropriate case.
This is just wrong...so very wrong.
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