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We didn’t write much about her but lefty bloggers wrote plenty, and they shall not be pleased to learn that an ardent opponent of Bush’s counterterror apparatus somehow isn’t fit for high-level government work. With Justice Stevens and Stupak owning the weekend headlines, the timing for the White House was finally right: Ms. Johnsen, an Indiana University professor, was a strident critic of the Bush administration’s counterterrorism policies and the legal theories used to create them. Those views and her past work for a group that supports abortion rights led stiff opposition from Republicans and some Democrats. The opponents made...

Gotta love how they schedule this stuff for the Friday memory hole but either way, it's been a good day. Stupek learned how a betrayal and a vote can cost you, and now the far left moonbats are crying over Dawn Johnsen withdrawing her nomination for the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel: The withdrawal represents a major blow to progressive groups and civil liberties advocates who had pushed for Johnsen to take over the post previously held by, among others, John Yoo, the author of the infamous torture memos under George W. Bush. Why did she bolt? ...the votes,...

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to endorse Dawn Johnsen, Barack Obama’s nominee for Justice Department legal counsel, after a heated debate Thursday over Johnsen’s past statements about abortion and George W. Bush’s national security policies. Johnsen’s nomination heads to the Senate floor on a 12-7 committee vote amid repeated and intense GOP attacks that she would bring "partisan" and "extremist" views to her role as counsel. Johnsen’s nomination has already been blocked once by the Senate. The back-and-forth between Republican and Democratic senators Thursday was as much a referendum on Johnsen's qualifications for the Office of Legal...

Pro-Abortion Obama Pick Johnsen Gets 60th Vote From Specter Washington, DC -- In a flip-flop that could provide her the 60th and final vote she needs to overcome a pro-life filibuster, pro-abortion Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter has changed his mind and decided to support Dawn Johnsen. She is the pro-abortion activist President Barack Obama nominated to a key Justice Department position. http://www.LifeNews.com/nat5871.html

Dawn Johnsen New York City, N.Y., Jan 11, 2010 / 10:16 pm (CNA).- Following President Obama's renomination of Dawn Johnsen to head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League stated on Friday that Johnsen “is not someone who simply takes issue with the Catholic Church's pro-life position: she wants to punish the Church.”Johnsen, who has faced criticism in the past for her strong pro-abortion stance, was nominated the first time by President Obama earlier last year. Though her nomination was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee by 11 to 7, it eventually...

As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) moves to ease a backlog of executive branch nominations, he suggested on Tuesday that he does not have the votes to bring up President Barack Obama’s pick to run the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel.

CNN) -- President Obama said Thursday that the military detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has made America less safe. President Obama wants to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, but Congress wants a detailed plan. "The record is clear: rather than keep us safer, the prison at Guantanamo has weakened American national security," he said during an address on national security at the National Archives in Washington. "It is a rallying cry for our enemies. It sets back the willingness of our allies to work with us in fighting an enemy that operates in scores of countries. By any...

A pro-life Congressman is pressing further with his request for President Barack Obama to withdraw his nomination of Dawn Johnsen. She is a former NARAL legal director Obama appointed to head the Office of Legal Counsel, which provides legal advice to the president. Johnsen has drawn strong opposition not only for her ties to the pro-abortion group but for filing a legal paper on its behalf with the Supreme Court equating pregnancy with slavery. Rep. Steve King, an Iowa Republican, was part of a group of 63 lawmakers to previously ask Obama to withdraw the nomination and he sent his...

Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., said Tuesday he will support the nomination of an Indiana University law professor to head the Obama administration’s internal law office. He is the first Republican to publicly declare his backing for Dawn Johnsen, whose selection to head the Office of Legal Counsel has grown into a fight about abortion rights and counterterrorism practices. Some Republicans have promised to try to block Johnsen’s confirmation either because of her support for abortion rights or because she criticized the legal justification used by the Bush administration for the torture of detainees. Lugar’s support does not guarantee the Senate...

Quote: 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...

Obama Nominee Dawn Johnsen has a Catholic Problem By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights , Protecting Catholicism - March 31, 2009 In a few weeks, the Senate will vote on the nomination of Dawn Johnsen to be assistant attorney general in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel. Catholic League president Bill Donohue says the Catholic community should be given a heads up: “As past staff counsel for the ACLU and legal director of NARAL (the most extreme pro-abortion group in the nation), Dawn Johnsen has done more than consort with the enemies of Catholicism—she has actively sought...

DOJ Nominee ‘Shocked’ by Her Own Words Surprised at her own argument, Johnsen now says she did not mean what she plainly wrote. Indiana law professor Dawn Johnsen, Pres. Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Justice Department’s all-important Office of Legal Counsel, had her Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday. 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. I made this contention in a profile of Johnsen for the current (March 9) issue of National Review, which...