Many of the cast of characters selected by Barack Obama to be members of his administration come from the extreme left-wing fringe of the Democrat Party. Obama's selection of Harold Koh to be his State Department's Legal Advisor best exemplifies this fact. Koh is a disciple of a radical belief called "transnationalism."
Transnationalists, such as Harold Koh, believe that Americans should be governed by foreign laws and the viewpoints of international organizations such as the United Nations. Indeed, former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor actually referred to international law when making some of her decisions on cases before the Supreme Court. Others on the court believe likewise and so does Obama's first nominee to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor.
Harold Koh is so radical that he referred to America as being a part of the "axis of disobedience" because we do not kow-tow to foreign laws which he and his fellow left-wing ideologues advocate for this country. Obama's nominee to the State Department actually put us in this category with the likes of North Korea, Iran and Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
In yesterday's "Congressional Quarterly" (CQ), an an article entitled "Koh Nomination Threatens to Tie Up Senate's Work Schedule Before Recess," it was reported that the United States Senate will vote on "President Obama's controversial choice of Harold Hongju Koh" to be the top lawyer at the State Department" this week.
The CQ also reported that the Republicans fully intend to use the 30 hours of debate required after Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid chose to schedule a vote to end the debate over Obama's radical appointment to the State Department. The Republican Senators intend to point out to the American people just how extreme and dangerous Harold Koh is to America's sovereignty and to democracy.
Fox News quoted Steven Gross, legal expert and fellow at the Heritage Foundation, on how great Harold Koh's influence will be regarding the extent to which international norms affect U.S. law: "This is not a desk job. This guy will be the face of American international law around the world. The top legal adviser at State travels extensively and is involved in international legal negotiations, treaties and in major United Nations conferences.
"The president should have the right to choose the most conservative or liberal legal advisers to give them advice, but this is much more than that. The concern is that he cares as much about -- if not more about -- international law and integrating that into the American judicial system than he does about protecting American prerogatives and American sovereignty."
Fox News also reported that, "Koh also advocates a 'transnational legal process' and has criticized the U.S. for its failure to 'obey global norms.' In an article published in the Berkeley Journal of International Law in 2004, Koh wrote, 'What role can transnational legal process play in affecting the behavior of several nations whose disobedience with international law has attracted global attention after September 11th -- most prominently, North Korea, Iraq and our own country, the United States of America? For shorthand purposes, I will call these countries '''the axis of disobedience.''''"
The fact that Barack Obama has appointed such an arrogant political hack to an important post at the State Department reveals just how much Obama learned under the tutelage of his long-time radical America-hating pastor, Jeremiah Wright, in Chicago. Those with any kind of commonsense in the United States Senate need to vote no against this outrageous extremist.
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