Opposing the Confirmation of Dawn Johnsen

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Opposing the Confirmation of Dawn Johnsen

4/1/2009

Concerned Women for America (CWA) is deeply concerned about President Obama's nomination of Dawn Johnsen for the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Council. As a former legal director of NARAL from 1988 to 1993, she not only promoted abortion on demand, but fought all legitimate restrictions on the practice. She has stated the idea of making abortion rare as well as safe and legal is "nonsensical," and called mothers-to-be "fetal containers." Topping it off, as a board member for the American Constitution Society, Johnsen holds the view that the U.S. Constitution is a living, breathing document and rejects its straight forward and literal reading. Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) shares our concerns and has authored a letter sent to President Obama asking him to withdraw Johnsen's nomination. CWA Policy Analyst Martha Kleder and Shari Rendall, CWA's Director of Legislation and Public Policy spoke with Congressman King on how you can help oppose Dawn Johnsen's confirmation. Listen | Download

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[Professor_Leonide]

The left always forwards leftist ideas. When “conservatives” win, they never do. We are being taken for fools. I, for one, don’t like it at all.

[Cindy]

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=D459CD4D-A4BB-440F-919B-F3B14F90E5DA

“Obama’s Latest Radical at Justice”
By John Perazzo
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, April 27, 2009

SNIPPET: “President Barack Obama recently named Dawn Johnsen as his choice for Assistant Attorney General to the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).

A 1986 graduate of Yale Law School, Johnsen arrives in Washington with impeccable leftist credentials. From 1987-88 she served as a staff counsel fellow for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), an organization that routinely has defended the rights of terrorists, illegal aliens, and enemies of America generally. For the ensuing five years, she was employed by the National Abortion & Reproductive Rights Action League (now known as NARAL Pro-Choice America).

From there, she went on to serve in the Clinton Justice Department from 1993-98. And today she is a national board member of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, which aggressively recruits and indoctrinates young law students and helps them rise to positions of power within the legal system—in an effort to drag all of American jurisprudence ever-farther to the political left.

Johnsen’s views on a wide range of issues mirror Obama’s. This is particularly true of her deeply felt sense that America is a nation with a great deal for which to apologize.

Johnsen’s opinion of the United States and its legal tradition, for instance, is largely negative. She considers America to be a nation rife with injustice, especially in the form of racial discrimination against nonwhites. In an April 2008 article in Slate, Johnsen lamented that “the U.S. incarcerates more of its people—and for longer periods—than any other nation, bar none.” Most disturbing, she said, was “the devastatingly disproportionate rates of imprisonment of racial minorities.” This inequity, she explained, was in large measure a result of “how we treat drugs: the crack/cocaine disparity and beyond that, the fact that African Americans face disproportionately higher rates of arrest, prosecution, and conviction and disproportionately longer sentences.” “And those disparities,” Johnsen added, “… translate to amazingly high rates of African Americans who subsequently are prohibited from voting, unable to find jobs, ineligible for student loans … the ramifications go on and on and on.”

There was just one problem with Johnsen’s righteous scolding about racism in the justice system: the charge wasn’t true.”