[David Bernstein, April 4, 2007 at 10:14pm] Trackbacks
Profile of Yale Law Dean Harold Koh: The Yale Daily News has what strikes me as a balanced profile of Koh [the first of a two-parter], who is by all accounts a nice guy, a good fundraiser, and beloved by his students, but is also a highly partisan liberal Democrat under whose tenure as dean conservative and libertarian students have felt increasingly uncomfortable, and conservative and libertarian alumni have, at least in some cases (as noted in the Daily News piece) grown increasingly alienated.
The article paraphrases a post I wrote for the VC mentioning that, by contrast to when I was a student, Harvard Law School under Dean Kagan now has a reputation as a far friendlier place than Yale for Federalist Society types, and that Harvard is now much more open-minded than Yale about hiring non-liberals. While I don’t object to the paraphrase, it would have been better form if the Daily News writer had made it clear that he never actually spoke to me, but just cribbed some comments from the VC.
Meanwhile, Professor Bainbridge piles on. Noting that Koh is on everyone’s short list for the Supreme Court in a Democratic administration, Bainbridges predicts that “Koh’s appointment to the SCOTUS would be an unmitigated disaster.”
...is a registered trademark of the Obama Administration.
Obama:
1. Familial background: muslim
2. The “oopsie” with Stephanopolous (”my muslim faith”)
3. The “gaffe” of “57 states”
4. First post-inaugural media interview: Al-Arabiya.
5. First foreign leader contact: Mohammed Abbas, PA
6. Closing GITMO
7. Says we are “not winning” (read: LOSING) in Afghanistan
8. Says we should talk without preconditions to Iran
9. Sends essentially surrender-themed video to Iran
10. Plans within months to give a speech in a muslim capital.
11. Plans to free GITMO detainees on our streets WITH WELFARE ASSISTANCE!!!
12. Seeks to add a significant number of muslims to governmental positions.
13. Plans to hire Harold Koh, who believes sharia law should apply to disputes in U.S. courts.
Look how each issue grows in seriousness as it occurs. If he is not stopped, our future as a nation is dark indeed.