Ethics

Samuel Alito: Empathetic Judge

By Ed Brayton

While the conservatives are throwing a fit about President Obama thinking that Judge Sotomayor's rise from humble beginnings might make her more empathetic toward the plight of the less fortunate, Glenn Greenwald digs up proof of their total hypocrisy from the confirmation hearing of Samuel Alito, who made much of his own unprivileged background and how that would make him more sympathetic to the suffering of the downtrodden:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 28, 2009 (boomark / email).