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Is Empathy an Important Quality for Judge? Why is Sotomayor’s White Male Remark Not Getting Much Attention?

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Where is the judiciary heading?

This isn’t a jurisprudence that the Founders would recognize, but it is the creative view that has dominated the law schools since the 1970s and from which both the President and Judge Sotomayor emerged. In the President’s now-famous word, judging should be shaped by “empathy” as much or more than by reason. In this sense, Judge Sotomayor would be a thoroughly modern Justice, one for whom the law is a voyage of personal identity.

The ‘Empathy’ Nominee: Is Sonia Sotomayor judically superior to ‘a white male’? – WSJ.com

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Written by Dan Decker

May 28th, 2009 at 1:05 am

Posted in Law, Politics, U.S.

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