THE ISSUE: Pres. Obama’s nomination of Harold Koh to be the State Department’s legal adviser.
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President Obama’s nomination of Harold Koh shows just how radical Obama is (“Obama’s Most Perilous Legal Pick,” Meghan Clyne, Post- Opinion, March 30).
This nomination could lead the country in the wrong direction and trash the Constitution.
I strongly believe that Obama is not only out to change the Constitution but also to change our country’s laws entirely.
Obama’s ideas are far beyond what his supporters were expecting, and I’m proud to say that he did not get my vote.
Joe DePascale
Brooklyn
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I was the organizer of the Yale Club of Greenwich event on March 13, which Meghan Clyne references.
The account given by Steve Stein of Dean Koh’s comments is totally fictitious and inaccurate. I was in the room with my husband and several fellow alumni, and we are all adamant that Koh never said or suggested that sharia law could be used to govern cases in US courts.
The subject of his talk was Globalization and Yale Law School, so, of course, other forms of law were mentioned. But never did Koh state or suggest that other forms of law should govern or dictate the American legal system.
Hopefully, your readers are interested in the facts.
Robin Reeves Zorthian
President
Yale Alumni Association
of Greenwich
Greenwich, Conn.
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Clyne’s hatchet job on Koh is a vicious attack on one of the most respected legal scholars in the United States.
Under President Bush, our country pulled out of treaties, practiced torture and treated established norms of international law with contempt.
Koh will help restore America’s legal reputation in the community of nations in ways that will strengthen our legal system at home.
His nomination should be supported.
John Collins
New Rochelle