And Then What, Dean Koh?

Ted Bromund / April 28, 2009

Today’s confirmation hearing for Harold Koh, President Obama’s nominee as Legal Adviser for the State Department, is an important hurdle, but it’s not the last one. As a transnationalist, Koh is not normally respectful of the Senate’s “advice and consent” role in making treaties. The full Senate can therefore be expected to take a lively interest in his nomination.

It’s this question of ‘what next’ that sums up part of the problem. For example, according to Koh, the U.S. was wrong not to participate in the 2001 Durban Conference. The Conference, according to Koh, was fashioning the “emerging global agenda on race discrimination.” And a global agenda is exactly the kind of agenda that Koh likes. (more…)