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GOP Focuses on Deputy AG Nominee Ogden's Work at Wilmer

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That's the title of a Legal Times report by David Ingram.  LINKThe nomination of David Ogden to be deputy attorney general has given senators a chance to revisit some of most controversial Supreme Court decisions of the last two decades. During a two-hour confirmation hearing last week, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Ogden about his work on cases involving abortion, the death penalty, foreign law and obscenity, repeatedly asking whether he personally holds the views that he argued on behalf of his clients. The partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr replied that in many cases he does not, and that in others he would still enforce the law if confirmed as the No. 2 official at the Justice Department. And:"A lawyer in private practice does not sit in judgment of his clients...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 09, 2009 (boomark / email).