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- How far we've come
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- Total eclipse of the heart, literal version
- Judicial empathy explained
- Hating politics
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when brooks is on, he's ON. that was an excellent op-ed
ReplyDeleteYes. If we don't want empathy & emotion on the court, we'd have to fill it with robots, not people.
ReplyDeleteIn fairness, we should consider the arguments against the judge.
ReplyDeleteI'm not going to read a blog post that takes the "Judicial Confirmation Network" seriously.
ReplyDeleteSuch people--on both the right on the left--live for confirmation fights. They need to make a riot over every nominee to get funding.
not to mention the fact that 95% of their arguments against sotomayor would be exactly the same against ANY other person nominated by Obama (with the obvious exception being the mocking of her bleeding ladyparts, funny name and strange taste in wetback food). criticisms that do not take full measure of the person being criticized don't deserve respect.
ReplyDeleteBurrDeming, helpful links, but I feel like all of those arguments relate to a poor understanding of what empathy means, which this post should have dispensed with. Brooks put 3 issues that are actually worth consideration helpfully at the end of his article.
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