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Enter the energetic and ambitious Professor Harold H. Koh ’75, who is now the dean of Yale Law School. Spurred by a varied group of Yale law students—including a rebel and a Rhodes Scholar—Koh filed suit against the U.S. in a Brooklyn federal district court. He argued that the Haitians had a right to counsel and that the government was illegally denying him access to his clients. The Justice Department struck back with the same argument that had convinced the Atlanta appeals court...
...legal battles for Koh and his students, however, were far from over. Bush changed tactics, and the Coast Guard started sending Haitians home without stopping at Guantánamo. In a defeat for the Yale team, the Supreme Court eventually upheld the Bush policy. Koh also had to juggle a separate case before Johnson that urged the release of the remaining HIV-positive refugees, including Pascal, from the squalid conditions on the naval base...
...getting bogged down in the technicalities of the process. Instead, he infuses the narrative with dialogue and glimpses into the minds of the lawyers and students. These insights are built upon interviews with nearly all of the key participants—Goldstein notes that he formally sat down with Koh 27 times and Pascal 34 times. The character-centered thrust of the book and the easy language makes the complex story accessible to everyone...
However, Johnson’s forceful decision did not fare as well. Realizing that the higher courts would overturn the ruling anyway, Koh agreed to have the opinion vacated as precedent. That didn’t affect the status of the refugees, who had already been admitted to the U.S.—but it did mean the ruling wouldn’t be binding for similar cases in the future. In exchange, the Justice Department offered to offset part of the university’s legal fees. As a former presidential adviser told Goldstein, the administration wanted...
Campaign Manager: Daniel A. Koh ’07 House: Winthrop