Breaking: Congratulations Harold Koh
It looks like former Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh will in fact be the next Legal Adviser of the State Department. The cloture voted just passed, 65 - 31 according to Congressional sources.
The cloture vote ends months of debate over Koh’s nomination. An up-down vote on his nomination should follow soon.
We’ll see if American foreign policy is immediately transferred to the control of a secret transnational body hell bent on taking our freedoms.
Koh cloture vote passes [The Cable]
Earlier: New York Post Writer Takes A Hatchet to Dean Koh
Yale Law School Conservatives Defend Harold Koh




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YAY HAROLD
YAY HAROLD
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He's nothing without Kumar
breaking: skadden has salaries as tbd on nalp
Congrats!
wgwag
and by wg i mean hillary
Nice work 9, good to see the true meaning of wgwag making a comeback.
No.
One.
Cares.
I think he put pee pee in my coke.
Let me be the first to welcome our new transnational overlords.
It's depressing that there would be so much opposition to a candidate as clearly qualified as Koh. The Republican Party really is the party of whiny bitches now.
The only thing better for Elie would be if Harold would have went to Harvard.
Then Elie could just cut the formalities and jerk him off.
Koh calls himself a "post-sovereign transnationalist" -- which means he wants to shit on the constitution before setting it ablaze.
He believes Americans should use foreign law and the views of international organizations to interpret our Constitution and determine our policies.
He believes that the United States needs international PERMISSION in order to defend itself, even from imminent threats.
Koh has referred to the United States as part of an “axis of disobedience” – along with Iran, North Korea, and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq – in reference to America’s alleged repeated violations of international law.
He wants unaccountable power to control your life.
Oh, yeah, we should really be congratulating this idiot.
God help us all.
Koh defends using international sources of law in interpreting provisions of the Constitution by pointing to international business laws and practices that have smoothed transactions--saying "international law is fundamental to a unified world, just look at cross border transactions and how essential international law is there!" The parallel is so horrendously flawed I don't understand people would take it seriously.
"It's depressing that there would be so much opposition to a candidate as clearly qualified as Koh."
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Liberal complaints that we're opposing a nominee even though he's "really highly qualified!" pretty much ceased being relevant after Robert Bork.
Anyway, it's the State Department. If anything, he'll wind up being the conservative voice over there.
The only thing worse than MysTTTal's empirically consistent failure at comedy is his inane political commentary.
MysTTTal, stick to what you do best . . . copy-and-pasting articles from much better law blogs.
Take away our freedoms? Are you serious? We still have a few left after the last administration? Sweet!
Last nail in the coffin for Freedom.
Did he pay all of his taxes?
Hmm I can't wait to have the Russian Supreme Court order me paddled in the gulag, for chewing gum, while being in the company of an unrelated woman in public, at a protest where the tanks are running over my fellow protesters, you know in respect of international law and all
Yeah, b/c it's the Republicans that have a patent on blocking qualified nominees. Bork... Thomas... Estrada... (Various CoA Judges)... Bolton... Alito...
Elie: For someone as educated as you supposedly are, your constant use of straw men speaks volumes.
this pick is bullshit...the liberal party sucks
YAY HAROLD!!!
Yaaay, we go to yaaaaaale. we're SOOOOOOO important.
seriously....who gives a fuck?!
harold doh is almost a bad as janet crapolitano or sonia sosominority. these whackjob leftist academic types setting policy is disastrous for the united states.
You have to love these Republican hackers/haters. They must hate waking up everyday- hope you stay irrelevant for the next 80 years. I will have lived a long life and died happy.
30--give it 4 to 8 years. remember what a hellhole americanturned into in the sixties and seventies. that's what we're in store for with more liberal democratic policymaking. dont worry, friend--the pendulum will swing back and hit you in the nuts.
Dear 31,
There is nothing wrong with wishing for a happy life. You are correct with the pendulum theory, but it will be fun seeing you guys climb back up- with all the piss and sh*t falling on you.
Warmly,
30
WHO CARES ABOUT KOH!!!!!
Didn't you hear that some of the 2009 class of WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW graduates will be taking the bar in July!?
Some of these guys are some smart cookies because they out-competed their classmates in terms of grades!
With good grades and a bar license, the world is theirs for the taking!!!!!
Because good grades, a good resume and a bar license is what's needed to be successful, right!?
Dear 30/32,
Guys who have nothing to offer in a debate but ad homs don't get listened to when they call others haters.
Regards,
- Not 31
He's nothing without CHRIS TUCKER!
LEGAL ADVISOR OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT!!!???
Very good...But does he know the SHAOLIN TIGER FISTS OF DEATH TECHNIQUE # 5????
I don't think so....I'm unimpressed...
When are we ever going to get past these stupid and annoying racist comments?