Sonia Sotomayor: The 'Empathy' Nominee

NetRight Nation: by Wall Street Journal, 05/27/2009 From the WSJ:
In making Sonia Sotomayor his first nominee for the Supreme Court yesterday, President Obama appears to have found the ideal match for his view that personal experience and cultural identity are the better part of judicial wisdom. 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. . . . [Get the Full Story]
See also: Advice to Republican Senators on Sotomayor Nomination and Justice Sotomayor?

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