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BO Nominee to Dilute,US Constitution with Internat. Law

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Obama Nominee to Dilute, Usurp
US Constitution with International Law
Matt Cover, CNSNews.com

Harold Koh, nominated by President Barack Obama to be the State Department’s top legal adviser, once argued that US federal court judges – including the Supreme Court – are the “critical link” between international and domestic law and play a critical role in bringing international norms into force as domestic law. Koh, currently dean of the Yale Law School, explained that his concept of “transnationalism” was the “downloading” of international laws and customs into domestic law, whether through the legislative process or through federal courts’ use of international law in interpreting the Constitution of the United States...

Writing in the Penn State International Law Review, Koh argued that federal judges were the linchpin in transnational law due to their ability to unilaterally read international or foreign legal standards into their interpretations of the US Constitution.

Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, a conservative group, said Koh’s views mean that the Constitution is no longer the highest standard by which federal judges examine US laws. “This is a radical idea, a radical agenda.”


Frank Gaffney video, discussing Koh's ideas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia4zBO0wsm4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newmediajournal.us%2F&feature=player_embedded
 
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