pajamasmedia.com - 4/14/2009
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JEFFREY ROSEN on Harold Koh and international legal norms.
newyorker.com - 4/14/2009
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newyorker.com —
It looks like Harold Koh, President Obama’s nominee
for legal adviser at the State Department, may turn...
out to be the first real confirmation fight in the new Administration. The controversy has been mentioned in a handful of newspapers, but there’s ...
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The Fight Over Harold Koh: News Desk: Online Only: The ...
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com - 4/15/2009
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Ignoring International Law
Chicago Boyz —
There is a bizarre idea in leftist circles that U.S. judges should apply the standards of “International Law.” To U.S. cases. From the Jonathan Adler via Instapundit:
For example, Dean Harold Koh of Yale Law School, mentioned as a possible Kerry Supreme Court nominee, has supported the idea that U.S. courts should expansively apply international legal precedents without the authorization of the president and Congress.
There is one simple reason why this is contrary to everything America stands for. American political ...
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corner.nationalreview.com 4/2/2009 — Restating my conviction that critics of State Department nominee Harold Koh should not base their case against Koh on a remark that Koh allegedly made about the possible application of sharia law in cases in U.S. courts, I nonetheless find ridiculous ...
On Glenn Beck Show on Harold Koh
corner.nationalreview.com 3/31/2009 — I'm scheduled to be on the Glenn Beck Show on the Fox News Channel at 5 p.m. ET today to discuss President Obama's terrible nomination of Yale law school dean Harold Koh to be the State Department's top lawyer.
So What Does Rosen Really Think?
corner.nationalreview.com 5/5/2009 — This article from Jeffrey Rosen at TNR about potential Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the 2nd Circuit is pretty astonishing:
Over the past few weeks, I've been talking to a range of people who have worked with her, nearly all of ...
Harold Koh confirmed
thecable.foreignpolicy.com 6/25/2009 — Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh was confirmed as the State Department's legal advisor in a roll-call vote, 62-35. Koh was tapped for the job nearly four months ago, but has faced criticism from some conservatives for an alleged ...
Blog Archive » Pro Koh [UPDATED]
opiniojuris.org 4/5/2009 — I was very happy to hear last week the news that Dean Harold Koh of Yale, someone I have known for many years and whom I greatly admire, was being nominated to head the State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser. It’s one of those picks that just ...
Brandt Goldstein: Confirm Harold Koh as State Department Legal Adviser
huffingtonpost.com 4/5/2009 — Those hoping President Obama will restore the rule of law were delighted last week when he nominated Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh as Legal Adviser at the State Department. I have known Koh for two decades and wrote a book that covered a key part of ...
The Koh Firestorm
takingnote.tcf.org 4/4/2009 — Americans' repudiation last November of bankrupt conservative dogma that had failed so disastrously, at home and abroad, should have discredited right-wing fantasists and empowered moderate realists in the Republican party. But the crescendo of ...
Unraveling the wingnut assault on Harold Koh
dailykos.com 4/2/2009 — In an article published on Slate yesterday, editor Dahlia Lithwick does a great job documenting the genesis of the wingnut assault on Yale Law Dean Harold Koh, which reached a sort of apex yesterday when Fox News actually accused the Obama ...
We Support Harold Hongju Koh
facebook.com 5/22/2009 — Harold Hongju Koh, President Obama's nominee for legal adviser to the State Department, is being falsely and viciously attacked. See Slate's summary here: http://www.slate.com/id/2215142/pag enum/all/ We should not allow an extreme minority to define ...