In the end, every Democrat* and eight Republicans voted for cloture on Harold Koh’s nomination for legal adviser to the State Department. The Republicans: Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), Mel Martinez (R-Fla.), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio). More…
Laura Rozen reports that Harold Koh’s nomination for State Department legal adviser has just overcome a major Senate hurdle:
“Cloture passed on a 65-31 vote,” a Congressional source relays at 11:30am. ”There was applause in the Senate gallery after the vote was announced. Republicans are
Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) office just announced that a cloture vote for Harold Koh’s nomination for State Department legal adviser is scheduled for 11 a.m. tomorrow.
Even though Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh hasn’t yet been confirmed as State Department legal adviser, his current employer is apparently pretty confident that he will be.
Bloomberg reports that Yale University yesterday named Robert C. Post — an expert in constitutional law who’s been teaching at Yale More…
On Monday, nearly four months after President Obama nominated Harold Koh to become legal adviser to the State Department, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) filed cloture and moved his nomination to the floor. Confirming the dean of Yale Law School to a powerful but usually uncontroversial position had proven harder than More…
A spokesman for Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) tells me that the senator is filing cloture on Harold Koh, the president’s nominee for State Department Legal Adviser, “right now.” Koh has been buffetted by attacks from conservatives, and Democrats hesitated to move on the nomination until they were confident they More…
Via Ben Smith, we find Center for Security Policy founder Frank Gaffney pulling out his hair and rending his garments about President Obama’s Cairo speech. Gaffney has previously cited “evidence” (what evidence, he didn’t say) that the president was “born in Kenya,” but he’s a reliable agitator for More…
TWI’s David Weigel is tweeting live from the “Libel Lawfare” Islamism conference (follow here), and he reports that Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney suggested conservative efforts to fight Harold Koh’s nomination to be State Department legal adviser are far More…
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee just now voted out Harold Koh’s nomination to become State Department legal adviser to the full Senate. The vote was twelve in favor and five opposed, with Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), the ranking Republican, being the only GOPer voting for Koh.
If Koh had his More…
Despite some of the more extreme attacks on Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh, Obama’s nominee for counsel to the State Department, Koh skillfully defended himself at a remarkably respectful hearing on his nomination before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.
Although he faced tough questions on More…
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