Posted on 02/21/2008 6:46:29 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
Meanwhile, major newspapers, including the New York Times, reported that Koh was on or close to the top of the list of likely Supreme Court nominees had John Kerry been elected in 2004. Conversations with Koh confidants, law faculty and Supreme Court watchers almost all lend credence to the rumor.
“I am hedged for 2008,” says Kenji Yoshino, a civil rights activist and Yale Law School professor. “Either the Democrats will lose and Yale will keep Harold, or the Democrats will win and Yale will loan him to the country.”
Only time — and the electorate’s mood, the new president’s disposition, the country’s political climate and the current justices’ health — will tell. But in the meantime, that “little wagon” may soon become a carriage complete with entourage if Koh doesn’t — or rather, does — watch out.
Fate brought Harold Koh to the Yale Law School deanship. The question now is whether it can bring him further.
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Yo! Kenji - stuff it where the sun don’t shine.
Whether they be conservative or liberal, folks who haven’t been judges before shouldn’t be appointed to the Supreme Court.
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Kohl is our Ted Kennedy here in WI.
...and the Republicans remain a minority in the Senate and the Senate Republicans decline to filibuster the 'Rat judges.
This is yet another reason to pray that Bill Clinton will be the last Democratic president in American history.
We're better off repealing Socoal Security in its entirety than giving SS benefits to enemy combatants. That latter idea is so radical that it makes today's 'Rat candidates look like conservatives by comparison.
No Koh, he must Goh.
Your spelling made me think you meant the Subprime court, which might be an appropriate choice in this case.
“Koh is a liberal lion”
he looks more like a fat kitten
What a Putz. The main academic lawyer pressing (totally illegal) international precedents to guide US constitutional law ....
Of course I’m sure this guy’s ethnicity has nothing to do with the Democrats interest in him.
After all, we all know they look at the inner person, not what someone looks like.
Yield to the honorable gentleman no longer from New Haven....
But that's what makes this guy such an attractive choice: no "paper trail" of embarrassingly left-wing rulings that might cause even Democrats to vote against him.
Don’t even think that way.
We need more Alitos, Scalias, Roberts, Thomases.
If McCain wins, we have a chance for that. If Hitlery or Osama does...well, you know what they have in mind.
God help us. But he’s not a woman, so he doesn’t have a chance, at least as the first pick.
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