Anti-Porn Zealot Bruce Taylor Lands Bush Appointment At DOJ Bruce Taylor, has accepted an appointment to the DOJ. His official title is Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice. This position, which is a presidential appointment took place on January 26, 2004. As Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division. He will work primarily on federal obscenity prosecution issues.

From 1989-1994, Bruce was at the Department of Justice as a Special Attorney in the Criminal Divisionbs National Obscenity Enforcement Unit and then a Senior Trial Attorney in the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.

He has served as an Assistant Attorney General of Arizona in 1989 and was an Assistant Prosecutor and Assistant Director of Law for the City of Cleveland, where he handled 600 obscenity cases and 100 appeals from 1973-78. Since 1973, he has prosecuted nearly 100 state and federal obscenity jury cases, as well as trials on prostitution, RICO, child pornography, and child sexual abuse, has written over 200 appeal and amicus curiae briefs, presented over 50 appellate arguments, and has represented public officials, law enforcement personnel, and citizens in civil lawsuits on civil rights, zoning, Internet pornography, nuisance abatement, injunctions, forfeiture actions, criminal procedure, defamation, and First Amendment challenges to federal, state, and municipal laws. Since 1995, he was President and Chief Counsel of the National Law Center for Children and Families in Fairfax, Virginia, where he assisted prosecutors, police, legislators, and public officials with laws and cases involving obscenity, child pornography, commercial sexual exploitation, protecting minors from Internet pornography, and trafficking in persons.