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Obama's Controversial Justice Nominee Withdraws Amid GOP Protests (Dawn Johnsen)
Fox News ^ | 4-09-2010 | Kelly Chernenkoff and Shannon Bream

Posted on 04/09/2010 3:20:21 PM PDT by tcrlaf

President Obama's pick to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel is withdrawing her nomination amid Republican protests over past statements she made on abortion and national security.

President Obama's pick to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel is withdrawing her nomination amid Republican protests over past statements she made on abortion and national security.

Dawn Johnsen said she was dropping out of the process because her "nomination has met with lengthy delays and political opposition that threaten" her objective to restore the office to its "best nonpartisan traditions" and "prevent OLC from functioning at full strength."

"I hope that the withdrawal of my nomination will allow this important office to be filled promptly," she said.

A White House spokesman said the president accepted Johnsen's request.

"Her credentials are exemplary and her commitment to the rule of law has been proven time and again, but it is now clear that Senate Republicans will not allow her to be confirmed," White House spokesman Ben Labolt said in a written statement.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; bho44; bhodoj; dawnjohnsen; failure; indianau; justice; moralabsolutes; nominee; obama; prolife
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Gotta love this BS statement:

"Senate Republicans will not allow her to be confirmed"

Glenn Beck wins again, doesn't he?

1 posted on 04/09/2010 3:20:22 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf

Look for Obama to nominate this “jurist” to the Supreme Court.


2 posted on 04/09/2010 3:23:46 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Obama makes me miss Jimmah Cahtah!)
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To: tcrlaf
NRO:
“During questioning by Sen. Arlen Specter, the professor professed to be “shocked” by my contention that she had once analogized pregnancy to involuntary servitude, a violation of the Thirteenth Amendment’s prohibition of slavery”
http://article.nationalreview.com/387022/doj-nominee-shocked-by-her-own-words/andrew-c-mccarthy

Is there any 0bama nominee who is even sane at all?
3 posted on 04/09/2010 3:23:46 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: tcrlaf

Hear this! You Democrats who think you can retire and then get a cushy job in the Obama Regime, THINK AGAIN!

We WILL block you!


4 posted on 04/09/2010 3:24:58 PM PDT by RatsDawg
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To: tcrlaf

Let’s hope the “Republicans” won’t let anyone the bum nominates be confirmed without a good fight!


5 posted on 04/09/2010 3:26:12 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS... taxes, pain and slow death. Is this what you want?)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

The delicious irony of it all is that SCOTT BROWN gets to decide who the SCOTUS nominee will be...


6 posted on 04/09/2010 3:33:12 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Obama White House=Tammany Hall on the National Mall)
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To: tcrlaf

That’s for Miguel Estrada and Janice Rogers-Brown.


7 posted on 04/09/2010 3:39:03 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: SmokingJoe

No


8 posted on 04/09/2010 3:39:04 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 442 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: tcrlaf

Another radical kicked to the curb!


9 posted on 04/09/2010 3:41:13 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: RatsDawg
We WILL block you!

We will, we will...
block you!

HF

10 posted on 04/09/2010 3:41:27 PM PDT by holden
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To: SmokingJoe

These 0bamunists are all monsters. Every one of them. Monsters.


11 posted on 04/09/2010 3:42:04 PM PDT by Noumenon ("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Exactly. Force 0 to use recess appointments. Especially in the courts.


12 posted on 04/09/2010 3:45:52 PM PDT by RedMDer (0 = one D Ten T : Recycle Congress in 2010, 2012... Forward with Confidence! Forward!)
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To: tcrlaf

How is that?


13 posted on 04/09/2010 3:57:51 PM PDT by Texas4ever (God is in control!)
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To: wagglebee; little jeremiah; roses of sharon; Impy; indylindy; Norman Bates; zendari; neverdem; ...

Look, we won a victory. Maybe this means that Obama will be cautious on his next Supreme Court pick.


14 posted on 04/09/2010 4:02:41 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Liberal sacred cows make great hamburger)
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To: RatsDawg

Hear this! You Democrats who think you can retire and then get a cushy job in the Obama Regime, THINK AGAIN!

We WILL block you!


That’s right.

And Graham and Hatch and all the rest will hear from us too!


15 posted on 04/09/2010 4:20:18 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Retired Greyhound

To Retired Greyhound:

Agree with your statement. Payback’s a bitch and we are in a real bitchin’ mood. Johnsen was a threat to the survival of the US and her lies about restoring integrity to the OLC is so full of crap that she’s a one-woman fertilizer machine.

There is no integrity in the White House, much of Congress, or the whole Obama administration. There is more integrity in a whorehouse than the White House. At least in a whorehouse, you know that you’re going to get screwed when you pay for the service. With the Obie WH, you didn’t expect to get screwed, out of your country, your insurance, your job, and you actually had to pay for this privilege with your vote. Stupid is as stupid did.

If you are unemployed, thank Obama. I just lost my health insurance thanks to Congress and Obama. I’ll remember the traitors and fools, in November.


16 posted on 04/09/2010 4:30:15 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: tcrlaf
For 8 yeasr Pat Leahy did worse. And Bush HAD to make recess apointments just to get the job done.

The Dmes wear this. The filibuster rule is aboutto be used.

17 posted on 04/09/2010 4:46:58 PM PDT by Candor7 (Now's the time to ante up aginst the Obama Fascist Junta ( member NRA))
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18 posted on 04/09/2010 4:53:39 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

Repubs better stand up and fight every step of the way...November is a long way off.


19 posted on 04/09/2010 4:55:06 PM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: Blue Turtle

Resist! Resist! Resist! ...every one of this usurper’s choices.


20 posted on 04/09/2010 5:05:42 PM PDT by hal ogen ($10 (I think) ajmo0unts through the internet from all over the world.)
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