NARAL Ramps Up Attacks On Obama Nominee Michael Boggs: 'He's Worse Than We Thought'

[marmar]

WASHINGTON -- The reproductive rights advocacy group NARAL Pro-Choice America will launch a new attack Tuesday on one of President Barack Obama's most embattled judicial nominees, Michael Boggs, pointing to new evidence of Boggs' right-wing record on abortion rights when he served as a Georgia state legislator.

In an email that will be sent to supporters Tuesday evening, NARAL president Ilyse Hogue says the group has uncovered votes that Boggs cast in favor of "personhood" legislation and in favor of a bill requiring abortion providers to put detailed information on the Internet, including how often they provided abortion services. The "personhood" measure would have granted legal rights to fertilized eggs.

"It turns out that judicial nominee Michael Boggs is even worse than we thought. We just uncovered evidence that Boggs voted for a bill that would have laid the groundwork for 'personhood,' which is one step away from overturning Roe v. Wade," reads the email, obtained by The Huffington Post ahead of its release.

On top of that, Boggs' vote for legislation requiring doctors to list how often they provided abortion services is "exactly the kind of list that we've seen violent anti-choice extremists use to harass and terrorize doctors at their homes and offices," the email continues. "Our allies on the Senate Judiciary Committee need to hear from you today so they know how important it is to ask Michael Boggs about his complete record." ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/06/naral-obama-michael-boggs-abortion_n_5275016.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013

[PeaceNikki]

1. barf

[Jackpine Radical]

2. You're just asking

to be run over by the Bluelink Special.

[Aerows]

4. They aren't brave enough to show up in this thread.

I think they have felt the tide turn, and now, they just sit these threads out.

[rhett o rick]

12. There are a lot of threads that "they" will not post in. What's a little odd is that most of the

time it's 100% of them. Not one or two but zero will be in the thread. Someone suggested that they have a special FB page that they plot their moves. LOL. Nothing in fracking, the TPP, indefinite detention, Wall Street, and even a kpete appreciation thread. Dont any of them appreciate kpete? Probably but they must be in lock-step. Politically liberal, LOL.

[BrotherIvan]

17. The FB page explains a lot

I thought it was a big light with some sort of O signal. Or google alerts whenever the name of the President appears. I expect a followup thread with lots of official photos to swoon over.

[marmar]

5. ROFL

[ProSense]

11. Is this

"You're just asking to be run over by the Bluelink Special."

...what you're referring to: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024910904#post13

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22. "The Bluelink Special" - ROFL!!!

[L0oniX]

27. Could get bog'd down.

[Aerows]

3. Obama's hands are tied

He has to nominate him. It's the only nominee he can get through Congress. He has no choice, he's not a dictator.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Besides, nothing has happened yet.

You got your undies in a bundle over nothing but speculation.

[Aerows]

8. Forgot that one

You are right, I should not concern myself with anything that is happening, I should only concern myself after it happened and then I should shut up because it won't change.

[QC]

15. He doesn't have a magic wand!!!

[Doctor_J]

26. And by caving in, he's showing the electorate how out of touch the Republicans are

thereby helping our cause

[QC]

28. Yep. He's giving them enough rope to hang themselves! n/t

[dflprincess]

19. And by then it's in the past

And we must look forward.

[Aerows]

31. Exactly!

Shutting up is clearly the best thing any Democrat can do.

[ProSense]

10. You forgot that he's also

But the White House has stood by Boggs, who is part of an all-or-nothing package of six judicial nominees that the president agreed to last summer with Georgia's Republican senators, Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson. Obama made some notable concessions in the deal -- four of the six nominees are GOP picks and only one is black, in a state with a large black population -- but administration officials say the trade-off is that Democrat-backed nominees in the package will finally move forward after years of going nowhere.

...a terrible negotiator. Besides, Democrats are the majority so it's likely the Judiciary Committee will reject him.

[rhett o rick]

13. So do you have any comments about the OP? nm

[Bobbie Jo]

14. Do you?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024917810#post12

[rhett o rick]

25. Yes I do as a matter of fact. Michael Boggs is one more of Pres Obama's

poor choices. Along with Tim Geitner, Lawrence Summers, Ben Bernanke, William M. Daley, Jeff Immelt, etc.

I was hoping for Change.

[PSPS]

7. Obummer

[msongs]

9. obama nominates people who reflect his own true beliefs. get over it :-) nt

[840high]

16. Probably true.

[KoKo]

18. This can't be true....

and isn't his other nominee the kill list guy who took out BinLaden? That might not bother many here..but, it bothers me that Obama wants a Federal Judge who approved a "Kill List."

And now THIS? What is going on with him?

[theHandpuppet]

20. Can't even begin to express how disgusted I am by this nomination

This was his only choice? Really? Bull hockey!

[Scootaloo]

21. WHY DO YOU WANT RAND PAUL TO WIN?!?!

[Supersedeas]

29. there are many many qualified State Court Judges to consider

but this is the President's call on who gets nominated

[dsc]

23. Obama deserves a lot of blame for this nomination

but so does Pat Leahy. Leahy's insistence that the tradition of blue slips be adhered to despite the repeated abuse by the GOP and the fact that they weren't adhered to when the Bush was in office and the GOP controlled the Senate is the reason for the deal in the first place.

[Doctor_J]

24. this is going to cause some cognitive dissonance in the hof

Most of them are BOGers.

[theHandpuppet]

30. Do you really think that was an appropriate comment?

Tiptoeing around all the various DU groups which you disrespect must be like traversing a progressive minefield.