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.” Continued...