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Ogden Nomination Puts Families and Justice at Risk 2/3/2009 How can a man who fought against laws to protect children and women be in charge of enforcing them?
Washington, D.C. — President Barack Obama’s nominee for deputy attorney general, David Ogden, has a long history of working to overturn laws on obscenity, abortion, and parental rights and undermining American justice by relying on psycho-babble and “international law” to which the U.S. has not been a party. David Ogden is unfit to be in the second highest position at the Justice Department.
Ogden routinely represented pornographers against laws to protect children and women. He opposed the Children’s Internet Protection Act, a law to protect children from obscene materials in public libraries, and the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act, which required producers of pornography to personally verify that models were not minors. He argued that taxpayers should foot the bill to print Playboy in Braille.
Ogden argued for federal funding of abortion-related activities and against parental notification laws for minor girls seeking to have an abortion. He opposed the barring of assisted suicide. He co-authored the National Organization for Women’s brief in the famous Scheidler case that sought to use organized crime laws against pro-life advocates.
Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America (CWA), says, “David Ogden has consistently worked to overturn laws that protect children, women and families. By siding with abortionists and pornographers, he has furthered the exploitation of women and children. He holds a low view of the Constitution, reframing it as a ‘living Constitution’ that he and his allies should get to rewrite, and a high view of international law to which the U.S. is not a party. Americans cannot feel safe with him in the most important management position at the Department of Justice. His record and ideology makes it plain to see that he would do unimaginable damage by declining to enforce just laws and by arguing cases in such a way as to undermine the Constitution.”
Mario Diaz, Esq., CWA’s Policy Director for Legal Issues, says, “David Ogden has shown time and time again that adherence to the text of the law and the Constitution is not a priority to him. He instead promotes the idea of a ‘living Constitution’ that judges are to make evolve with the times. This is a very dangerous philosophy, as is also his reliance on foreign law in deciding domestic cases.” For Information Contact: |
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