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Fight Fight Fight! Harold Koh to the Hill Tomorrow

By | 04.27.09 | 4:42 pm

Everyone’s favorite “radical transnationalist,” the Shiite cleric Harold Koh, will have his confirmation hearing to become State Department legal adviser tomorrow at 2:15 p.m. before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, according to a just-released committee statement. Daphne recently noted that Koh has the support of fellow More…

Harold Koh Gets a Boost From Ken Starr

By | 04.14.09 | 6:04 pm

Here’s an unlikely endorsement:  former Independent Counsel Ken Starr — who spent much of the 1990s investigating President Bill Clinton — is backing Harold Koh, Obama’s nominee for legal adviser to the State Department.

Santorum vs. Koh

By | 04.09.09 | 11:48 am

As I was reporting out today’s piece on the push against State Department legal adviser-nominee Harold Koh, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) was writing this column about Koh.

Koh tops the list of Obama’s potential Supreme Court nominees. Is this what Sen. John Kerry meant when he once

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Conservative Coalition Takes Aim at Obama Legal Nominee

By | 04.09.09 | 11:11 am

A coalition of conservative activists is beginning to form around opposition to Harold Koh, President Obama’s nominee to become the legal advisor for the Department of State. In Koh, opponents of “transnational” legal theory have found a test case to prove that international law is a political loser–and a way More…

Conservatives Attack Koh

By | 04.01.09 | 1:52 pm

It should come as no surprise that President Obama’s nomination of the widely respected human rights expert and dean of the Yale Law School, Harold Hongju Koh, to be the State Department’s legal adviser has gotten conservatives to call out their attack dogs, as FOX News reports.

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