{"id":42343,"date":"2019-01-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-attorney-general-says-he-can-set-aside-personal-views\/"},"modified":"2019-01-30T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T20:00:11","slug":"alaska-attorney-general-says-he-can-set-aside-personal-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-attorney-general-says-he-can-set-aside-personal-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska attorney general says he can set aside personal views on abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska&rsquo;s attorney general said he can set aside his personal views on issues like abortion in performing his duties.<\/p>\n<p>During a confirmation hearing Tuesday, Kevin Clarkson said the attorney general&rsquo;s job is to respect the law, not bring personal views to work.<\/p>\n<p>The longtime attorney has handled an array of cases. But his work on cases involving social issues has drawn attention, with some gay rights and abortion rights advocates raising concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Clarkson has said he helped draft the 1998 state constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman. But he notes the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage is now the law.<\/p>\n<p>He says the right to abortion is protected under the Alaska constitution&rsquo;s privacy provision.<\/p>\n<p>Several fellow attorneys praised Clarkson&rsquo;s skills and professionalism.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 This is an Associated Press report by Becky Bohrer.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Clarkson said the attorney general&rsquo;s job is to respect the law. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":42348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[34,230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-42343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-alaska-legislature","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42343"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}