“that needs constant reinforcing to survive. Practitioners thus feel comforted that they are not imposing personal values but “good” values.”

True. I read accounts of conservative counter protesters where they claimed the lefties tried to taunt them by chanting ‘you are alone’ at them in unison. How very Borg. 🙂

I empathize with a woman who goes out and kills a rapist who raped her.

Obama wants a jurist with empathy.

What does he value more? The rule of law? Or the rule of empathy…..

Signed,
Baklava

Noted lefty constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley thinks Sotomayor tends toward the lightweight edge of the scale of the available talent:

“She is not the intellectual powerhouse that many academics had hoped for.”

and,

“Advocates have struggled to cite a single opinion that could be viewed as a brilliant or extraordinary treatment of the law.”

And,

“Looking objectively at the body of opinions by Judge Sotomayor, one is not overwhelmed by their depth. There is nothing in this body of work that would scream out for the elevation of the author to the Court.”

Read the whole article here:

http://jonathanturley.org/2009/05/26/white-house-to-announce-court-pick-at-10-am/#more-11301

I probably wouldn’t agree with Turley on anything. Especially individual rights, making law from the bench and US subjugation to International Law. But he seems to be quoted an awful lot by MSNBC, which is the Faux “News” opposite number in the war for the lemming mind — and by NPR. So….

On the other hand, what the 0-Man has got going for him is the Harriet Miers nomination. That and Clarence Thomas.

But apart from Thomas, the rest of the SCOTUS, when nominated, seems to have been much more qualified than Sotomayor.

Consensus of those who worked with Sotomayor is that she’s intelligent, but an intellectual lightweight and not patient enough to take the time to understand complex issues.

One wonders whether there will be a shock to the court’s system, giving up a quiet, very polite Justice who is known for listening, for one who often comes across as rude, pushy and domineering of discussion from the bench.

It’s implicit to her well established left political orientation, her so-called politics of empathy…

Otherwise, you and I are in agreement.

“I see identity politics as anti-liberal, but I know what you mean. Any notion of empathy in determining a judgment of law is very troubling.”

I wouldn’t say ‘any’ is but I know that empathy is just code. Just like living constitution is code… Both for ‘I’m going to rule based on whatever I want’.

Our system is built on the basis of common law causing the Rule of Law to be soft and malleable. It shifts and changes and “develops” with each decision made by a court, whether it be a district or appellate court, state or federal.

It is an activist judge, that goes beyond developing the law to changing the law to fit their personal depiction of the way the law should be, ignoring the pretense of established law, the will of the people, that is the problem and endangers the Rule of Law.

While the Rule of Law changes with the progression of time, they must change as a reaction to the change of the people. It is improper to force a change in the Rule of Law in order to force a change in the people.

So the real question remains: Is Judge Sotomayor an activist judge?

Unless that future president is a she — then it might be, “The Mamma”

There you go. You barely have to think up a post.

And just as every sitting emperor of Rome was crowned “Caesar” after that, every American President will be “The Bama”.

This hack is going to spew out more misery for the country than you could possibly imagine, or perhaps you can. Obama’s selection process is a vivid illustration of the saying “it takes one to know one”