Posted on 09/17/2009 3:51:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
Dawn Johnson, on the docket for the position of Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Council, is another Obama nominee with the potential to change the shape of American politics.
Johnson is currently a professor at the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and has a long history in the Washington legal scene. She served as former President Clinton’s acting assistant attorney general and as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. Her installation in Obama’s Office of Legal Counsel puts her in a decision making capacity for the Executive Branch – working directly with the President on Executive branch and national security legal affairs.
Johnson has earned the notice of conservatives based on her adamant pro-abortion views, expressed in the following statements:
• We “should oppose inaccurate and incomplete abstinence-only sex education and other treatments of sexuality issues that instill negative attitudes about sexuality itself.”
• Abortion restrictions “reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers.”
• “There is no ‘father’ and no ‘child’ – just a fetus.”
Johnson is strongly against many of the policies put forth in President George W. Bush’s Office of Legal Counsel by John Yoo, Jay Bybee and others. Those individuals advocated expansive executive power, including powers which enabled Bush to pursue military action abroad, legalize interrogation techniques, and conduct expansive domestic intelligence gathering.
Johnson would reverse all that (and more) based on her responses to certain legal questions. She writes that “it might be a wise choice not to use … language [that includes the word ‘war’] when talking about constitutional questions related to the new national security threats we face, because war has a long history of specialized constitutional meaning.” This seems to suggest “war” or anything resembling it isn’t advisable for many new security threats we face.
She’s keen on attacking the wanton power exercised by the Bush administration, but during her hearing, stated that the “Office of Legal Counsel [and] the president have a special obligation to ensure they are acting within the law, including protecting individual rights and enforcing rights that the courts never have the opportunity to adjudicate.”
In other words, she recognizes that the Office of Legal Counsel sometimes exercises independent authority in legal matters.
Johnson serves on the board of directors of the American Constitution Society, a group born out of liberal anger over the election of George Bush over Al Gore in 2000. She has worked for the National Abortion & Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Numerous Republicans will support her.
The only 2 I can think of are Collins and Snowe
Obama is a radical abortion advocate.
Females, the youth, blacks, Jews, homosexuals, convicted criminals, latins all voted for this marxist p.o.s. in droves.
Ya get what ya voted for fools.
Hey youth, have fun paying for this ass clowns agenda over your taxpaying years.
How true
I mean, water is wet, A=A, I mean c'mon! This is basic stuff!
Kaslin: heads up. I bet you she will get at least 25 GOP votes.
LLS
“Johnson is currently a professor at the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and has a long history in the Washington legal scene. She served as former President Clinton’s acting assistant attorney general and as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. “
“: And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
47: Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
48: Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. “ Luke 11:46
There are also good lawyers, like Ann Coulter, who aren’t vultures waiting to feed on the carrion of human suffering.
The Pantywaist-in-Chief is bolstering his wicked regime with masses of crawling demons like himself!
Great post!
Thanks.
He promised Change and we are getting Clinton redux.
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