Ethics

Bork on Sotomayor

By Ed Brayton

Robert Bork has an interview in Newsweek slamming the Sotomayor pick for the Supreme Court. The more I see about Sotomayor the less I like the pick myself, but the criticisms coming from the right are not only idiotic they're also breathtakingly hypocritical. Let's take a look at some of my favorite lines from the interview.

President Obama has spoken of empathy as his key standard for choosing judicial nominees. What do you think of that approach? I don't know exactly what empathy means. I suppose at a minimum it means you want a judge who will depart from the meaning of the constitution when a sympathetic case arises. It does seem to raise a warning that we're talking about a judge who does not follow the law.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 24, 2009 (boomark / email).