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Meet your new state dept. lawyer and possible supreme court pick.

 

 

Harold Koh. He will be giving Hillary legal advice and Obama is likely to throw him right up the ladder to the big court.

 

Yes, he leans left; Obama would be going against his own ideas of what a judge should be to not pick him; so the question is are Koh’s ideas and opinions yours; because one day they may be and there will be nothing you can do then to stop it.

 

Some ideas and quotes from Koh:

 

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.

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.”

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.”

Now, all of you who are A-Okay with the past 4 statements; please let us know right here if you have the guts as Koh’s view of America is not what America has been. This would be America by name only.

 

Yes, Dean of yale law, impressive; but considering his staements and opinions; he’s pretty sad to be heading yale law.

 

 

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COMMENTS

  • larueladue

    it is really no surprise as to the type of lawyers that they spit out…

  • Menlo

    The world would be a much better place without law schools. It is the goal of law schools to teach people how to get around and to violate the law. They spend years forming creative “theories” on how best to push unpopular measures and policies on the public. In many areas of study, theory has little to no relevance or usefulness in practice outside a classroom; and it can often have harmful consequences.

    I think law school is really just a form of teaching marketing. When “theory” isn’t enogh, they’ll go into “precedent” where you learn what others have written about the “law” (largely based on their nonsense theories), and they will wrongly tell you it is law.

    I have said before that I would like a court appointment who has not been to law school. It’s bad enough that lawyers go there. For decades, we have been under a federal judiciary that has used law school techniques to lie through their teeth about the Constitution and the law.

    Of course Koh is not anything unusual. I believe Joe Biden actually TEACHES the subject.

  • larueladue

    That is a frightening scenario….

  • Menlo

    See here.

    The majority of Americans have long been misled into giving the highest credibility to these liars and deceptive institutions, ALL law schools, the ENTIRE federal judiciary, and the “legal” advisors in government being among them.

    I believe everyone who is or has been in any elected or appointed government office for the past fifty years has violated the Constitution and/or law at some point. Congress and our courts have done so routinely. There likely would be immense public opposition if they did not. I believe all but a statistically insignificant percentage of Americans unknowingly oppose one or more Constitutional limits.

    The bottom line is that “legal” experts and institutions exist for the sole purpose of teaching people how to violate and lie about the law. Extra honors go to those who cook up creative new ways to do it.