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To: Bris who wrote (291023)2/6/2009 9:26:22 AM
From: Peter Dierks   of 793895
 
Obama's Recent Nomination Puts Families At Risk, Undermines Law
by Mario Diaz, Esq.

02/06/2009

Of all the nomination faux pas President Obama has made in his very short time in office, the nomination of David Ogden to the second highest position at the U.S. Department of Justice takes the cake. To choose someone with such a track record of undermining families and such little respect for the written text of the law to be in charge of upholding the laws put in place to protect families would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous.

Are we to believe he will protect children when he worked so hard against the Children’s Internet Protection Act (United States v. American Library Association), which sought to protect children from obscene materials in public libraries, and the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act (American Library Association v. Thornburgh), which required producers of pornography to personally verify that models were not minors? His long history of representing pornographers, including arguing that taxpayers should foot the bill to print Playboy in Braille (American Council for the Blind v. Boorstin), cannot give anyone confidence.

It is extremely worrisome that throughout his career he has felt the need to continually ...

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