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Please join me in signing the petition now. "Please vote to confirm Dawn Johnsen to head the OLC, and reject all procedural efforts to derail the confirmation of this eminently qualified nominee." <http://site.pfaw.org/site/R?i=kyi8taql7QpPMVHVYIbQkw..> Dear William, Republicans in the Senate are banding together and threatening to filibuster one of President Obama's best executive branch nominees to date: Dawn Johnsen, nominated to head the incredibly important Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at the Department of Justice. The OLC plays a critical role in ensuring that the government plays by the rules. But under President Bush, the office was "ground zero" in providing the legal justifications for torture and warrantless spying, offering opinions that defied the Constitution, the Geneva Conventions and the Supreme Court. Dawn Johnsen is the right person to restore integrity to this vital office. Part partisan blackmail, part pander to the Religious Right, and on all levels, thoroughly soaked in hypocrisy, the GOP's opposition to Johnsen cannot go unanswered. And we can't let a filibuster succeed. <http://site.pfaw.org/site/R?i=Q9ScZ6e51JfQUZRtCv0nVg..>Please join me in signing PFAW's emergency petition to confirm Dawn Johnsen right now. Then ask five others to join the petition. Congress is in recess and we need to build this petition into a powerful lobbying tool before the Senate reconvenes and the Republicans have a chance to move forward with filibuster plans. Dawn Johnsen's confirmation is tremendously important for the same reasons she is being targeted. She's shown a fierce commitment to the fundamental constitutional values the Bush administration trashed. She was an outspoken critic of legal arguments coming out of the OLC -- arguments that supported torture and undermined privacy and due process. She put a voice to how we all felt, and made the case in clear, legal terms against what we all knew in our hearts was also morally wrong. It's easy to see why senators on the right, interested in protecting President Bush's legacy and burying his administration's misconduct, would fear Johnsen. And so they have resorted to distorting her record and attacking her qualifications. It's not only insulting to Johnsen, it demeans the intelligence of those who have to listen to it. Johnsen is eminently qualified, having actually headed the OLC in 1997 and 1998 as Acting Assistant Attorney General (due to the GOP holding up President Clinton's nominee to fill that slot at the time, Beth Nolan). Please, if you've needed to read this far to click and sign the petition, <http://site.pfaw.org/site/R?i=6vm-dhwYn7mGqL8GT3IS5g..>go ahead and do it now. We need your signature right away. As you may know, in addition to being a longtime board member of People For the American Way Foundation, I have long been an activist for a woman's right to choose. That's why I am so disturbed that the most vitriolic public attacks targeting Dawn Johnsen's nomination have been about her advocacy on behalf of reproductive freedom. The Religious Right -- as PFAW has said -- treats pro-choice bona fides as an instant disqualifier, but we can't let Republican senators who purport to be pro-choice get away with blacklisting Dawn Johnsen because the Right doesn't like her experience working for the right to choose. I promise that I'll be doing all I can to make sure Dawn Johnsen's confirmation succeeds. I hope you will be with me every step of the way. Sincerely, Kathleen Turner Actor, Activist, PFAW Supporter and PFAW Foundation Board Member P.S. It's equally important that after you sign the Dawn Johnsen petition, you ask others to do the same. 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