Ethics

Another Empathetic Judge Surfaces

By Ed Brayton

The right wingers who are passing out the pitchforks and torches to do away with all empathetic judges have yet another such judge to throw on the fire. This judge was introduced by the president upon making his nomination as a "warm, intelligent person who has great empathy." In his confirmation hearing, he spoke eloquently of his own upbringing in terrible poverty and how this would give him a perspective that other judges would not have because of their privileged lives. In response to one question he said:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 01, 2009 (boomark / email).