change.gov - 1/5/2009
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WASHINGTON -- Today, President-elect Barack Obama announced that he intends to nominate the following individuals for key posts at the United States Department of Justice: David Ogden, Deputy Attorney General; Elena Kagan, Solicitor General; Tom Perrelli, Associate Attorney General; and Dawn ...
usaservice.org - 1/7/2009
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General Colin L. Powell Announces USAservice.org General Colin
L. Powell, USA (Ret.), and the Presidential Inaugural Committee...
just unveiled President-elect Obama’s “Renew America Together” initiative, asking all Americans to make an ongoing ...
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huffingtonpost.com - 1/8/2009
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Rep. John Conyers, one of the most prominent
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the nomination of Dr. Sanjay Gupta for Surgeon General. In a letter sent on Thursday, Conyers asked his Democratic colleagues to "join me ...
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Conyers: Obama Should Not Nominate Sanjay Gupta
usdoj.gov - 1/5/2009
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The original Statutory Authorization Act of June 22,
1870, states, " There shall be in the Department...
of Justice an officer learned in the law, to assist the Attorney General in the performance of his duties to be called the Solicitor General. " The ...
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Obama Taps Former ACS Board Member Dawn Johnsen For Key Justice Dept. Post
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society —
... President-elect Barack Obama announced today that he “intends to nominate” Dawn Johnsen, a professor of law at Indiana University School of Law, and until a few days ago an ACS Board of Directors member, as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. A statement from the president-elect’s transition Web site, Change.Gov, notes Johnsen’s ACS affiliation and also that she served as the Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel from 1997-98. ...
The real deal at Justice
Political Animal —
THE REAL DEAL AT JUSTICE.... The transition office announced this morning Barack Obama's choices for some of the top positions in the Justice Department. Today, President-elect Barack Obama announced that he intends to nominate the following individuals for key posts at the United States Department of Justice: David Ogden, Deputy Attorney General; Elena Kagan, Solicitor General; Tom Perrelli, Associate Attorney General; and Dawn Johnsen, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. President-elect Obama said, "These individuals bring the integrity, depth of ...
Dawn Johnsen At OLC
Political Animal —
Dawn Johnsen At OLC As Steve noted earlier, the Obama transition team has announced several new appointments at the Department of Justice. I want to focus on one: Dawn Johnsen, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. Like many people, I had never heard of the Office of Legal Counsel before the Bush Administration, and more specifically before John Yoo's torture memos came out. The OLC basically gives legal opinions for the Executive. It tells, for instance, the CIA and the Department of Interior what it judges to be permissible under the laws, and its ...
Dawn Johnsen At OLC
Obsidian Wings —
... The Obama transition team has announced several new appointments at the Department of Justice: David Ogden as Deputy Attorney General; Elena Kagan as Solicitor General; Tom Perrelli as Associate Attorney General; and Dawn Johnsen, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. I want to focus on the last of these. ...
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More Obama Justice Dept. picks announced —
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