Posted on 05/03/2009 2:15:56 PM PDT by george76
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.
Koh. He's a fan of "transnational legal process," arguing that the distinctions between US and international law should vanish.
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.
The primacy of international legal "norms" applies even to treaties we reject. For example, Koh believes that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child -- a problematic document that we haven't ratified -- should dictate the age at which individual US states can execute criminals. Got that? On issues ranging from affirmative action to the interrogation of terrorists, what the rest of the world says, goes.
Including, apparently, the world of radical imams.
Koh claimed that "in an appropriate case, he didn't see any reason why sharia law would not be applied to govern a case in the United States."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Well, the good news is he’s not being nominated for the SCOTUS. Whew.
I wonder how he’d feel if “world opinion” was to punish gays with execution by stoning. Should that become the law of the land, then? Somehow, I doubt he’d agree.
Bump.
The pro-Sharia-Law gun-grabbing anti-American POS was confirmed today 62-35.
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” the distinctions between US and international law should vanish “
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