Leave Harold Koh Alone!! No, Seriously, Leave Him Alone

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Dahlia Lithwick says that the conservative attacks on the Yale Law School dean, who is slated to become the legal adviser to Obama’s State Department, are unfounded and that is is high time for some lefty pushback. Koh, she argues, is exactly the sort of person who ought to be staffing State at times like these. I agree. Give her a read.

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