Obama's Judicial Appointments Are Scary

Barack Obama's judicial appointments are downright scary. One of these is Harold Koh, former dean of the Yale Law School, whom Obama chose to be the State Department's legal adviser. Mr. Koh has been quoted by other lawyers as telling an audience that "in an appropriate case, he didn't see any reason why Sharia law would not be applied to govern a case in the United States." Sharia is the Muslim law which, among other extreme punishments, allows stoning women to death for the so-called "crime" of being raped.

In one of his writings, Harold Koh revealed himself as a thoroughgoing globalist, or in his term, a trans-nationalist. Trans-nationalists believe we have a "living" Constitution, and that allows us to import the fiction of what is called international law into U.S. law, thereby putting the United States under a global legal system.

Since Barack Obama calls himself a "citizen of the world," we can assume that his appointments will reflect those trans-nationalist views. One test of his commitment to globalism will be his relationship with the International Criminal Court (ICC). President Bush withdrew the United States from the International Criminal Court in 2002. Standing up for American sovereignty, Bush rejected the jurisdiction of a foreign court that is not bound by the U.S. Constitution, our laws, or our due process protections. Nevertheless, President Obama's United Nations representative, Susan Rice, praised the ICC as "an important and credible instrument," and this raised foreign "expectations" that the U.S. will accept the authority of the ICC even though the United States is not a party to the treaty.

It should be the Senate's duty to require all judicial nominees to proclaim their fidelity to the U.S. Constitution as written, and their rejection of the use of any foreign laws or courts.

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