I mentioned earlier that we’d be closely following today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the nomination of Harold Koh to be State Department Legal Adviser. But then–well, you know. I haven’t forgotten, though, and here’s a bit of an update.
You can read the prepared statements from committee chairman John Kerry (D-MA), ranking member Richard Lugar (R-IN), and Koh himself (all PDFs) here. However, if you’re in the mood for some slightly denser, but more interesting reading, check out this Q&A. Lugar asked Koh a bunch of questions for the record (including on such hot-button issues as “transnational justice”) in advance of the hearing and Koh responded in full last week.
A committee source says Lugar set a cordial and laudatory tone in his opening statement, and suspects that he will vote to move Koh’s nomination out of committee when it meets to discuss business a week from today.
