Thursday, April 02, 2009

More on Harold Koh and Sharia   [Ed Whelan]

Restating my conviction that critics of State Department nominee Harold Koh should not base their case against Koh on a remark that Koh allegedly made about the possible application of sharia law in cases in U.S. courts, I nonetheless find ridiculous the assertion in this New York Times article that the “controversy . . . soon mushroomed into an all-out attack by conservative commentators.” One op-ed, some blog posts, and some mentions on Fox News constitute “an all-out attack”?  Boo hoo.

It’s my own judgment that conservative commentators have barely begun to make the overwhelming case against Koh that his record merits — on his transnationalism generally and on its threat to American sovereignty and to representative government, not on sharia. 

04/02 11:09 AMShare