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18 Oct 2009, 7:56 am
The White House has yet to make much of an issue of the Senate's failure to confirm Dawn Johnsen to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, and it has been even quieter on judges. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 2:59 pm
But for a generation of law students that has grown up revering American Constitution Society stalwarts such as Dawn Johnsen, Eric Holder, Pamela Karlan, John Payton, Laurence Tribe, Goodwin Liu, David Cole, and my own partner in crime Walter Dellinger, among others, the absence of most of these names from even the long shortlist is demoralizing. [read post]
19 Jul 2018, 12:53 pm
The literature on this question is deep, but for those interested in taking a dive, there are three useful articles (by Dawn Johnsen, David Barron, and Peter Strauss) published in Law & Contemporary Problems in 2000, and there have been good more recent contributions to the debate by Professors Daniel Meltzer, Saikrishna Prakash, and Joseph Landau. [read post]
1 Nov 2008, 3:19 pm
As Dawn Johnsen has noted in an article on the subject, refusal to enforce a law on the ground that it is "probable" that the Supreme Court will agree with the president's position makes things too easy on the president. [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 12:57 pm
Chief Justice William Rehnquist is cited as also being a nonjudge Justice; he was an assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel (the position to which Dawn Johnsen was nominated, in case you've been following that story). [read post]
4 Aug 2021, 7:50 am
Professors Dawn Johnsen and Marty Lederman at OLC? [read post]
7 Apr 2009, 1:27 am
As far as I can tell, nothing has been done by either the Office of Legal Counsel or by the Attorney General that is inconsistent with the principles that Dawn Johnsen and others developed to guide the Office's actions (with the possible exception, on which the facts are unclear to me, of the timing of the formal release of the OLC opinion -- see Principle Six, which refers to timeliness). [read post]
11 May 2017, 4:27 am
Lawprof Dawn Johnsen, at the WeHateTump blog, argues that he’s not entitled to the deference otherwise shown presidents: It is time to ask: Has Trump in effect forfeited some measure of judicial deference across contexts and cases, through his disrespect for the courts and the rule of law and his displays of prejudice and arbitrary decisionmaking? [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 11:25 am
Andersen compares the failure of Dawn Johnsen’s nomination to head the Office of Legal Counsel to the likely success of a nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Court, noting that a record of outspokenness can be a liability. [read post]
20 Mar 2009, 1:19 am
Senate Fight Likely as Nominee for Office of Legal Counsel Moves Forward
Legal Times
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines Thursday to endorse Dawn Johnsen to lead the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, sending her nomination to the full Senate for what is expected to be a contentious debate. [read post]
3 Jan 2016, 9:50 pm
Neera Tanden will provide introductory remarks for a panel that will feature Debo Adegbile, Walter Dellinger, Cynthia Estlund, and Dawn Johnsen. [read post]
24 Jan 2009, 6:34 am
By elevating folks like Dawn Johnsen and Marty Lederman in Justice, Obama has marginalized the Taylor-like thinking on Bush-Cheneyism. [read post]
6 Jan 2009, 12:03 am
Ogden's nomination had been seen as preordained by insiders, but bigger surprises came in Obama's selection of Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan as solicitor general and Dawn Johnsen, an Indiana University School of Law professor, to head the Office of Legal Counsel. [read post]
5 Aug 2020, 6:30 am
For the Symposium on Mark Tushnet, Taking Back the Constitution: Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law (Yale University Press 2020).Amanda Hollis-BruskyTaking Back the Constitution is an ambitious book that covers a wide swath of territory in its attempt to explain, critique and offer alternatives to the contemporary Supreme Court and its constitutional agenda. [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 8:58 am
Barack Obama is no George W. [read post]
7 May 2010, 10:00 pm
Below, we discuss the most significant aspects of Elena Kagan’s experience and writings as they relate to the Supreme Court. [read post]
17 Jan 2013, 8:05 am
On March 26 and 27, the Court will hear oral argument in the same-sex marriage cases, Hollingsworth v. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 1:41 pm
The other day, I was blogging about tags, and somebody asked what are all the tags. [read post]
