JUDGES should interpret the Constitution according to other nations' legal "norms." Sharia law could apply to disputes in US courts. The United States constitutes an "axis of disobedience" along with North Korea and Saddam-era Iraq.
Those are the views of the man on track to become one of the US government's top lawyers: Harold Koh.It's a job where you want a strong defender of America's sovereignty. But that's not Koh. He's a fan of "transnational legal process," arguing that the distinctions between US and international law should vanish.The primacy of international legal "norms" applies even to treaties we reject. For example, Koh believes that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child -- a problematic document that we haven't ratified -- should dictate the age at which individual US states can execute criminals. Got that? On issues ranging from affirmative action to the interrogation of terrorists, what the rest of the world says, goes.Koh has also praised the Nicaraguan Sandinistas' use in the 1980s of the International Court of Justice to get Congress to stop funding the Contras. Imagine such international lawyering by rogue nations like Iran, Syria, North Korea and Venezuela today, and you can see the danger in Koh's theories.
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03-30-2009, 05:44 PM #1Slave brander
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Osambo picks another douche bag for his cabinet
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03-30-2009, 06:10 PM #2Forgotten Foil Head
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sotero has proven himself incapable of picking competant
people he should not be allowed to pick any one
as he is not the president he is a kenyan national aho
seized power in a rigged election where is the fucking
SCOTUS?????they are supposed to be the check on the
legislative and executive branches
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03-31-2009, 07:34 PM #3Chief
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They are owned by the same group that control the Executive and Legislative branches of the government.where is the fucking
SCOTUS?????Who Needs Niggers?
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03-31-2009, 07:45 PM #4Negromancer
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The only thing 0bonobo should be picking is cotton.
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