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Friday, January 08, 2010
Law - "President Obama will renominate Dawn Johnsen"
So reports Charlie Savage of the NY Times in this story today that begins:
President Obama will renominate Dawn Johnsen to lead the Justice Department’s powerful Office of Legal Counsel, along with his choices for five other jobs that the Senate did not act on last year, a White House official said Thursday.[More] The Bloomington Herald-Times also has a story ($$) this morning, by Andy Graham, that begins:
Indiana University’s Dawn Johnsen has been renominated by President Barack Obama to head the U.S. Office of Legal Counsel.Johnsen, a professor at IU’s Maurer School of Law, was initially nominated last January, but the full U.S. Senate never voted on the matter before recessing in December, which meant her name was sent back to the White House. The Obama administration responding with her renomination essentially starts the process anew. Johnsen will have to again clear the Senate Judiciary Committee, whose approval she initially earned last March, before her nomination can proceed to the full Senate for consideration.
Johnsen has said she will withhold comment until the confirmation process is complete, and a phone call Thursday night failed to reach her husband, former Monroe County Community School Corp. board member John Hamilton.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 8, 2010 06:49 AM
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