{"id":390771,"date":"2010-03-04T23:00:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T04:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=70830"},"modified":"2010-03-04T23:00:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T04:00:33","slug":"late-night-confirmation-is-just-around-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/390771","title":{"rendered":"Late Night: Confirmation Is Just Around the Corner!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_right'><object width=\"300\" height=\"243\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1D1cap6yETA&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1D1cap6yETA&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainjustice.com\/2010\/03\/04\/senate-panel-approves-johnsen-nomination\">Good news, everyone!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>The Senate Judiciary Committee today endorsed Justice Department Office  of Legal Counsel nominee <strong>Dawn Johnsen<\/strong> along a  party-line vote after a tense debate over her views.<\/p>\n<p>The panel voted to report Johnsen out of committee by a 12-7 vote. \u201cI  have to admit that [my] decision was not even a close call,\u201d Sen. <strong>Orrin  Hatch<\/strong> (R-Utah) said today at the panel\u2019s business meeting  before he voted against her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Surely her floor vote must only be a few months away now!<\/p>\n<p>But first Max Baucus must lead a small taskforce of Republicans and conservadems to decide which constitutional principles Ms. Johnsen will agree to sacrifice in exchange for Olympia Snowe&#8217;s promise to briefly sort-of look like she might think about voting yes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagList\">Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/dawn-johnsen\/\" rel=\"tag\">Dawn Johnsen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/department-of-justice\/\" rel=\"tag\">Department of Justice<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seminal.firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=70830&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_70830\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><br style='clear:none' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news, everyone! The Senate Judiciary Committee today endorsed Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel nominee Dawn Johnsen along a party-line vote after a tense debate over her views. The panel voted to report Johnsen out of committee by a 12-7 vote. \u201cI have to admit that [my] decision was not even a close call,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}