The same would likely apply to Harold Koh's embrace of myriad other controversial transnationalist initiatives.
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The State Department's top lawyer, Harold Koh, is a strong proponent of following the "norms" of international law.
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Such use has been aggressively championed by, among others, Harold Koh, President Obama's controversial choice for State Department Legal Advisor.
President Obama has tabbed the former dean of Yale Law School, Harold Koh, to become the legal adviser for the State Department.
That would appear not to be the case, however, in light of his choice of Harold Koh to be the State Department's top lawyer.
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The State Department's Legal Adviser Harold Koh believes the US should subordinate its laws to an abstract and largely unfounded notion of international law.
Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh, who wrote the Diplomat's Brief says that even an accused terrorist has certain basic rights to a fair trial under the Geneva Conventions.
If they fail to exercise that power vigorously with respect to the nomination of Harold Koh to be the top State Department lawyer, they will not only have been derelict.
Mr. HAROLD KOH (Dean, Yale Law School): So for us to precede and to try people under these standards would subject us to a charge that we're engaged in some of kangaroo justice.
Based on his past writings and public pronouncements, if Harold Koh is truthful in his answers to these and similar interrogatories, he should be disqualified from serving as the top State Department lawyer.
Stopping the President's controversial appointment of Harold Koh as legal advisor to the State Department is the first major mission of a newly-formed caucus of House Members devoted to issues of American sovereignty.
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Speaking of Shariah, does Harold Koh's interpretation of the phrase "decent respect to the opinions of mankind" require the United States to "internalize" more generally the brutally repressive, mysogenistic and seditious theo-political-legal program to which authoritative Islam gives that name?
How would Harold Koh square the oath of office he must take if confirmed as State Department Legal Advisor to uphold and protect the Constitution with his insistence that international "law" and "norms" must take precedence if there is a conflict between them?
Mr. Obama has begun to populate the executive and judicial branches with transnationalists like Harold Koh, Eric Holder and Sonya Sotomayor, making it increasingly probable that those unrepresentative of and unaccountable to Americans will be exercising ever-greater influence over our lives and fortunes.
According to the past writings of Harold Koh, the former Yale Law School dean who is now the U.S. government's top authority on international law and its application domestically, "norms" like the new Human Rights Council resolution should supercede U.S. laws and even the Constitution.
In other words, it appears that, in giving Interpol carte blanche, the transnationalists in the Obama administration - a group that includes, notably, State Department Legal Advisor Harold Koh, UN Ambassador Susan Rice and, not least, the President himself - have sliced away at the corpus of American sovereignty.
The disclosures "place at risk ongoing cooperation between countries partners, allies and common stakeholders to confront common challenges from terrorism to pandemic diseases to nuclear proliferation that threaten global stability, " State Department legal adviser Harold Koh wrote to a lawyer for the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, Saturday, in a last-ditch effort to forestall publication.
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The fact is -- and I encourage you to go back to look the speeches by the Attorney General, by John Brennan, remarks by Jeh Johnson and by Harold Koh on these matters, and I think they provide a pretty voluminous accounting of matters that are treated here with great deliberation and seriousness.
The Senate - and the rest of us - will rue the day if a majority of its members blindly allow the new administration to adopt the anti-constitutional theories espoused by the likes of Harold Koh and allow him to implement them in brazen violation of an oath of office with which they explicitly conflict.
Particularly when such actions are taken together, they will have the effect of institutionalizing the core notion behind Mr. Obama's brand of what his top international lawyer (and prospective future Supreme Court nominee), State Department Legal Advisor Harold Koh, calls "transnationalism": A new world order in which the United States is simply one nation among many, subject to a higher - if utterly unaccountable - authority.
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