Posted on 10/30/2009 3:20:56 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Nearly 40 organizations have called on Reid to schedule a vote on Dawn Johnsen, Obama’s pick to lead the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which is tasked with providing legal advice to the president.
Several members of this coalition are frustrated that Johnsen’s nomination has languished in the Senate for nearly eight months despite Democrats’ control of 60 seats.
Johnsen has run into strong Republican opposition because of her statements on sensitive political issues ranging from abortion to voter ID law. But her writings on presidential powers over suspected terrorists in military custody and other national security issues may be giving some Democrats political heartburn.
Left-leaning groups including People for the American Way, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Feminist Majority and the National Council of La Raza have sent a letter to Reid calling the delay “extraordinary and unacceptable.”
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This lady is a major radical, one who did legal work for NARAL. I can’t imagine her giving objective legal advice to anyone on any topic.
Where is the GOP?
“Where is the GOP?”
They have mostly united against this choice.
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