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GOP Blocks Controversial Obama Nominee Dawn Johnsen Before Recessing

President Obama's controversial choice to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel is spending the holidays in limbo after Senate Republicans -- in a last jab at Democrats for passing a massive health insurance bill -- blocked her nomination and five others.If confirmed, Dawn Johnsen , a law professor at Indiana University, would be in charge of the office that formulates the attorney general's formal opinions and provides counsel on the diciest legal questions, particularly the handling of Guantanamo Bay detainees and their impending move to the Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill.On Dec. 15, Obama issued a directive for Attorney General Eric Holder to "acquire and activate the TCC as a United States penitentiary" and ordered Holder to "provide to the Department of Defense a sufficient portion of the TCC to serve as a detention facility" for detainees at Guantanamo Bay "who have been or will be designated for relocation."That move angered GOP lawmakers like Sen. J...

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