Political Quotes

“the position of the Clinton administration on child pornography is an outrage! This administration has weakened the accepted interpretation of the Federal child pornography law to the extent that much, if not most, of the child pornography cases which should be prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department cannot be prosecuted. The Clinton administration's interpretation of the law was set forth in a Justice Department brief to the U.S. Supreme Court last year in the child pornography case of Knox versus United States which involved a twice-convicted child pornographer. The brief was written by Solicitor General Drew Days who is prominently mentioned as a potential nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court of retiring Justice Harry Blackmun. Solicitor General Days, in that brief, set forth a ``recipe'' for legal child pornography--that is, child pornography which the Clinton administration will no longer prosecute. Under the Drew Days interpretation of the law, the actions of the child rather than the pornographer determine whether the pornography is legal. The Drew Days brief says the child must be `'acting or posing lasciviously'' or the child pornography is legal. That is not what Congress intended when it outlawed child pornography.…”