Harold Koh: Obama's Transnationalist Traitor Juris

According to discoverthenetworks.org, Harold Koh was "the dean of Yale University Law School from 2004 to March 2009, at which time he relinquished that position when President Barack Obama nominated him to be the Legal Advisor to the U.S. State Department." Koh is

"an advocate of transnationalism, a concept that argues in favor of "global governance" as opposed to the constitutional sovereignty of independent nation-states. This perspective holds that the world's most challenging problems -- war, terrorism, "climate change," hunger, financial and social inequalities, diseases, human rights violations, racism, sexism, and xenophobia -- are too complex and deep-rooted for any single nation-state to address effectively on its own. The solution, says Koh, would be for all members of the international community to recognize a set of supranational laws and institutions whose authority overrides that of any particular government. Koh believes that such laws should "be internalized into the domestic law of even resistant nation-states."

In other words, Koh is a traitor to U.S. sovereignty, and is a New World Order totalitarian.

Rick Santorum points out the Daily Obvious: Obama wants to derail the US in a fashion that makes us subservient to international law under international auspices. His every move smacks of just that. His appointment of Harold Koh to the barely visible but very influential job as the State Department's top lawyer is just a start: Koh is a likely candidate for nomination to the Supreme Court.

Santorum:

"Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions. His nomination of former Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh to be the State Department's top lawyer constitutes further evidence of his disdain for American values.

This seemingly obscure position in Foggy Bottom's bureaucratic maze is one of the most important in any administration, shaping foreign policy in the courts and playing a critical role in international negotiations and treaties.

Let's set aside Koh's disputed comments about the possible application of Sharia law in American jurisprudence. The pick is alarming for more fundamental reasons having to do with national sovereignty and constitutional self-governance.

What is indisputable is that Koh calls himself a "transnationalist." He believes U.S. courts "must look beyond national interest to the mutual interests of all nations in a smoothly functioning international legal regime. ..." He thinks the courts have "a central role to play in domesticating international law into U.S. law" and should "use their interpretive powers to promote the development of a global legal system."

Obama's sworn promise to uphold the U.S.Constitution was dead as soon as he said the words; he never had such intentions. The sovereignty of the U.S. is actually anathema to Obama who is apologizing world wide to those who agree with him that if America is not a failed state, it should be. This is the dominant view in the Muslim quarters, which are offended at any recommendation that Israel and Jews NOT be eradicated from the map, and that only the global caliphate is an acceptable viewpoint.

Koh reportedly has favorably considered the use of Sharia Law in U.S. courts. He favors the

"International Criminal Court, which could subject U.S. soldiers and officials to foreign criminal trials for their actions while fighting for our security. He has recommended that American lawyers work to "undermine" official American opposition to the court."

Koh feels that international law should trump local law, if local law differs from the foreign law. And international law is trending ever more so to Sharia as European and British Leftists move to placate their Muslim citizens rather than to require them to obey the law of the land to which they immigrated.

This is nothing less than institutionalizing the traitorous nature of Leftist jurists who subvert any and all law if it is necessary to further their personal political agendas.