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Noting Justice Alito's lack of empathy for criminal defendants

By Douglas A. Berman

I just got around to reading Emily Bazelon's interesting profile of Justice Samuel Alito from this past weekend's New York Times magazine.  The piece, headlined "Mysterious Justice," is not especially kind as Bazelon contends that Justice Alito provides ?a window onto right-wing empathy on the court ? and onto conservative instincts generally about who deserves our solicitude.?  And these passages should be viewed as spot-on by sentencing law and policy fans: Alito?s sense of empathy never seems to involve an act of imagination; it rarely extends to people who are not like him. Alito had no kind words for Lilly Ledbetter, for example, who for almost 20 years was paid less than the men doing the same job she held as a supervisor at Goodyear Tire and Rubber...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 22, 2011 (boomark / email).