This memo from Fidelis persuasively makes the case that David W. Ogden, President Obama’s nominee to be Deputy Attorney General, is (like other top DOJ picks) hard-Left on a broad array of culture-war issues—for example, obscenity and pornography, abortion, homosexuality, and racial preferences—and in favor of the judiciary’s role in imposing the Left’s agenda on those issues. That’s no surprise to those of us who weren’t bamboozled by Obama’s sweet-sounding post-partisan rhetoric. But given how many Americans evidently were bamboozled, it would be good for Republican senators, at a minimum, to make clear how far out of the mainstream Ogden and other DOJ nominees are.
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Ed Whelan holds the Antonin Scalia Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and is a regular contributor to National Review’s Bench Memos blog.
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