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The specifics of criminal justice in the Obama Administration still coming into focus

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this New York Times article, the Senate yesterday confirmed (with a little controversy over porn) two key Obama appointment for the Department of Justice: The Senate confirmed David W. Ogden as deputy attorney general on Thursday, by a vote of 65 to 28, after an often testy debate between Republicans and Democrats that dipped in and out of discussions of pornography.... When Mr. Ogden, who served in the Justice Department in the Clinton administration, was in private practice, he represented Playboy magazine as well as librarians opposed to software mandated by Congress that filters Internet content.... [Some] senators contended that his representation of Playboy and the librarians amounted to a ?predilection? toward views sympathetic to them, despite his assertions that he found child pornography abhorrent...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 13, 2009 (boomark / email).