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Doug Kmiec: The case for empathy

By Alliance Alert

Doug Kmiec writing in America Magazine: "No offense to all the highly talented appellate judges on the president?s short list, or even to my fellow academics, but both talent pools give almost exclusive emphasis to the law?s doctrinal development--the 'footnotes in a casebook' as the president put it, rather than the impact of those developments on individual citizens. A few theoreticians in the mix makes sense, but the Supreme Court is now entirely their domain. Empathy has a wider, more open-minded nature, asking how law interrelates with the larger culture."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 07, 2009 (boomark / email).