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"Generally, the court is institutionally conservative"
Hit & Run —
... That's at least a better answer than the one he gave to Planned Parenthood last year, where he described his ideal justice as "somebody who's got the heart, the empathy" to sympathize with society's downtrodden. Occasional adherence to the Constitution is better than none at all, though Obama's ...
Tenacious Liberalism: Obama Supreme Court Judges
Stop The ACLU —
... “redistributive changes.” Barack Obama expressed his regret that the Supreme Court hadn’t been more ‘radical’ and described as a ‘tragedy’ the court’s refusal to take up ‘the issues of redistribution of wealth.’ No wonder he wants to appoint judges that legislate from the bench,” Holtz-Eakin continued [McCain spokesman]. In July 2007 , Barack Obama speaking at a Planned Parenthood event said, speaking of the persona of a Supreme Court justice of his choosing: We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy ...
Bond warns that Obama would nominate judges who empathize with ‘the gay.’
Think Progress —
... In fact, in discussing judicial nominations, Obama’s references to “empathy” only suggest that he would seek individuals who were not tainted by the “culture wars” of the 1990s: ...
Latest Anti-Obama Robocall Hits Him On Partial Birth Abortion
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Obama has criticized the Supreme Court's 2007 partial-birth ruling in the case of Gonzales v. Carhart, calling it "a concerted effort to steadily roll back" access to abortion. However, Obama also made clear on Fox News in April that he "strongly believe[s] that the state can properly restrict late-term abortions. I have said so repeatedly. All I've said is we should have a provision to protect the health of the mother, and many of the bills that came before me didn't have that." ...
Latest Anti-Obama Robocall Hits Him On Partial Birth Abortion
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Obama has criticized the Supreme Court's 2007 partial-birth ruling in the case of Gonzales v. Carhart, calling it "a concerted effort to steadily roll back" access to abortion. However, Obama also made clear on Fox News in April that he "strongly believe[s] that the state can properly restrict late-term abortions. I have said so repeatedly. All I've said is we should have a provision to protect the health of the mother, and many of the bills that came before me didn't have that." ...
Barack Obama and Constitutional Property Rights:
The Volokh Conspiracy —
... . Stronger protection for constitutional property rights would also be consistent with Obama's more famous statement calling for the appointment of judges who have "[t]he empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that's the criteria by which I'm going to be selecting my judges." As David Beito and I discussed in ...
Supreme Empathy?
Wizbang —
Speaking to a Planned Parenthood Conference in Washington, DC, in July 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama made the following observation with respect to the qualifications of Supreme Court justices: "We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that's the criteria by which I'm going to be selecting my judges." Some time later, the brilliant Thomas Sowell ...
Empathy And Colorblindness
Discriminations —
In July 2007 candidate Obama clearly announced what his standard would be for nominating judges:
We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that's the criteria by which I'm going to be selecting my judges.
Now comes University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein with a powerful critique of the empathy criterion in judicial selection and a defense of ...
Empathy is Not a Code Word for Dirty Gay Terrorist Hippie
Library Grape —
The last few weeks have been muy caliente in terms of Supreme Court dish. To recap, Supreme Court Justice David Souter announced that he's retiring from the Court. President Obama then laid out his criteria for selecting a new Justice, which included the quality of empathy (which should be no surprise, considering that he called for judicial empathy way back in 2007). Obama's re-opening of the empathy gate has driven the GOP into ever-heightening states of abject apoplexy at the ludicrous ...
Weekend Opinionator: Is America Becoming a 'Pro-Life' Nation?
Opinionator —
... to push for the so-called Freedom of Choice bill that would codify Roe v. Wade? Notice how it was in a speech to Planned Parenthood, not the A.C.L.U. or Glaad, that candidate Obama said that “culture Wars are just so ’90s” ? And does anybody think he’ll bring up the subject at ...
