Posted on 04/07/2009 4:00:41 PM PDT by Kaslin
Republicans are considering a filibuster aimed at blocking the confirmation of Dawn Johnsen, who conservatives claim once compared "forced pregnancy" with slavery.
President Obama's nominee to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel once compared "forced pregnancy" with slavery. Now Republicans are considering a filibuster to block her confirmation.
The controversy stems from comments made 20 years ago by Dawn Johnsen, a law professor at Indiana University, whose nomination is pending before the full Senate.
In a brief filed when she was a lawyer with the National Abortion Rights Action League, Johnsen cited a footnote that said forcing women to bear children was "disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the 13th Amendment, in that forced pregnancy requires a woman to provide continuous physical service to the fetus in order to further the state's asserted interest."
At her confirmation hearing last month, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., asked whether Johnsen had said abortion rights should be protected by the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery.
"It seems to me just candidly beyond the pale," said Specter, who supports abortion rights.
But Johnsen said she merely suggested an analogy in the footnote and "never believed the 13th Amendment had any role" in the abortion issue.
At least 45 House Republicans have co-signed a letter to Obama asking him to withdraw Johnsen's nomination because of her "brazen" abortion rights stance.
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“Nuclear Option” coming in 3...2...1
...And the media will barely say a word.
So they all get in line behind Sebelius but throw us a bone now and then. I’ll take what I can get I suppose.
I wish Specter would get defeated or get a job w/obozo admin.
Whaddya mean, "CLAIM"?
Either the brief says that in the footnote, or it doesn't. She signed it, or she didn't.
No "claim" about it. It's true, or it's not.
I compare a womans ability to choose death for her child to Slavery and oppression of the fetus.
Why doesn’t anyone ever propose money and scientific research for an Artifical womb, so that instead of abortion a living transfer could take place?
NARAL would go batty over that suggestion. What do you mean a woman will no longer be able to choose death for her child? She will be forced to transfer the child and give it a fighting chance at life, now that seems fair.
They will “consider” the option, then cave as usual.
They need to pick their fights and make them count.
FYI...getting the Repubs to stand 100% against Oshama's budget was a good fight to fight IMO.
Filibuster? Gimme a freakin’ break. The Republicans haven’t the votes to filibuster. And if they tried, the Dems would drop that “nuclear option” the Republicans hadn’t the guts to use in a skinny minute. Just watch!
Republicans better take note. If you EVER get back into the majority, REMEMBER the ruthless nature and take-no- prisoners attitude of these Liberofascist Democrats. THEN you treat them as they treated you — you win a war NO other way.
Let’s see if the so called Republicans have the guts to do this. I’m not holding my breath waiting, that’s for sure!
Then his mother must have been a slave owner ....
Considers?
LLS
Dawn Johnsen, President Obama's nominee to head the Department of Justice's legal office, is a professor of Law at Indiana University. This October 2007 image is from the American Constitution Society panel on principles and practices to guide the Department of Justice under the next attorney general.
It’s not that they don’t have the guts to do it. It’s just like patriot preacher says they don’t have the votes to filibuster. But trying is a lot better then doing nothing at all
Consider??? They should be doing this with EVERY bill or nominee, period!
OK - missed that part ....her mother was a slave then ...
SPECTER REMARKS ON QUALIFICATIONS OF NOMINEE TO HEAD DOJ OFFICE OF LEGAL COUNSEL
Washington, D.C. (March 19, 2009)— U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today delivered the following remarks regarding the nomination of Dawn Johnsen to be Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel at the Committee’s Executive Business Meeting. The Committee approved the nomination by a vote of 11-7.
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/news/article_full.cfm?eventid=4167
what a C-word
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