And Then They Came for Koh ...

[HowHasItComeToThis]

If mainstream America can't stand up for Harold Koh, we will get precisely the government lawyers we deserve.
By Dahlia LithwickPosted Wednesday, April 1, 2009, at 7:31 PM ET

It's 11:45 a.m. on April 1, and if you run a Google News search on Harold Koh, dean of Yale Law School and President Obama's pick for legal adviser to the State Department, here's what you'll find: 13 pieces on far-right Web sites characterizing Koh as dangerous and anti-American; several Fox News stories, updated several times daily, one of which describes the anti-Koh screeds as "burning up the Internet"; and a measly two blog posts defending Koh from these attacks. By the time you read this, I suspect that Fox News will have a scrolling red banner that reads, "Obama's Koh pick imperils us all" (and … wait for it … BINGO!), the anti-Koh pieces will number 18, and the pro-Koh blog posts will number three.

http://www.slate.com/id/2215142/


THE EXTREME RIGHT WILL NOT STOP.

THEY WOULD RATHER DESTROY AMERICA THAN FACE THE MUSIC

[damntexdem]

1. With the Dubya Administration, were not his picks accepted by the Senate?

Except Miers for the SCOTUS (against whom some Republicans railed), didn't Dubya largely get who he wanted -- and always for his cabinet?

If Rethugs seriously block Obama's cabinet and other administration picks, it's time for consistent and repeated use of the Nuclear Option in the Senate.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. "THEY WOULD RATHER DESTROY AMERICA THAN FACE THE MUSIC"

It's like a hostile takeover in business.

They see a lot of valuable stuff (treasury, military, spy network, publicly-held natural resources), and they intended to grab it, break it up, and sell off the pieces.

In fact, that's what they've been doing for a few decades now. They call it privatization.

[hfojvt]

3. we can stand up for him, but should we?

here's the Fox news summary

"Former Clinton administration official Harold Koh, who has been dean of the Yale Law School since 2004, once wrote that the U.S. was part of an "axis of disobedience" with North Korea and Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Koh also has long held that the U.S. should accept international law when deliberating cases at home."

What is our(your) answer to that?

I would like to see that "Axis of disobedience" in context.

Secondly, about the international law. Is a) that comment untrue, or b) something I would probably agree with if given specifics, or c) something I should agree with. I would like to see some examples, or specifics.