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Flashback: Alito Knows A Thing Or Two About Empathy Also
TPM Election Central —
... Earlier today, Greg Sargent dug up an old interview in Ladies Home Journal in which Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (a now-retired Reagan nominee) suggested that her experience as a woman impacted her jurisprudence. ...
Alito, O'Connor, and Sotomayor: More IOKIYAR
Daily Kos —
... Of course life experience shapes the lens of judgment, but apparently it's only ok to say that out loud if you're a Republican. Or white. Travel back in time 28 years, to the first woman on the Supreme Court, Reagan appointee Sandra Day O'Connor and what she had to say in a Lady's Home Journal interview unearthed by Greg Sargent: ...
Clarence Thomas: Despite My Usual Silence, I, Too, Am Empathic
TPM Election Central —
... First Barack Obama said he wanted his Supreme Court nominee to bring a quality of empathy to the bench. Then he picked Sonia Sotomayor, who claimed to embody this quality. Then Republicans and movement conservatives alike launched a possibly ill-advised war on empathy (at least as it applies to Supreme Court nominees).
Now, though, it seems most recent Republican Supreme Court picks are, or claim to be, pretty empathic creatures themselves. There's Samuel Alito, and Sandra Day O'Connor, and now, it turns out, Clarence Thomas. And I believe, ...
Clarence Thomas is a member of the club, too
Political Animal —
CLARENCE THOMAS IS A MEMBER OF THE CLUB, TOO.... Samuel Alito believes empathy is an important quality in a Supreme Court justice. So does George H.H. Bush . Sandra Day O'Connor had the audacity to concede that jurists can and should consider gender and race when weighing the merits of a case. As it turns out, even Clarence Thomas , hardly a high court liberal, sees the value of empathy. From his 1991 confirmation hearing: "...I believe, Senator, that I can make a contribution, that I can bring something different to the Court, that I can walk ...
Empathy Cited As Important By Many Court Nominees (And Today's Scritti Politti)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... there are converted buses that bring in the criminal defendants to our criminal justice system, bus load after bus load. And you look out and you say to yourself, and I say to myself almost every day, "But for the grace of God there go I."
OMG, Clarence! Don't cry all over your robe, for Pete's sake!
Sam Alito
Listen to Alito, straight up sympathizin' with La Raza and stuff!
Sandra Day O'Connor
The first woman on the high court tends to play down ...
Media Ignores Obama's SCOTUS Nominee's Membership In Radical La Raza Orginazation
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... We also shouldn't ignore what we ended up with the last time a nominee mentioned race and gender influencing decisions. However, the most disturbing reflection of Sotomayor's character is the company she keeps. According the American Bar Association, Sotomayor is a ...
Media Ignores Obama’s SCOTUS Nominee’s Membership In Radical La Raza Orginazation
Stop The ACLU —
... We also shouldn’t ignore what we ended up with the last time a nominee mentioned race and gender influencing decisions. However, the most disturbing reflection of Sotomayor’s character is the company she keeps. According the American Bar Association, Sotomayor is a ...
Correcting Greg Sargent and other liberals on the “empathy” issue
Sister Toldjah —
... - to “prove” the right’s alleged “hypocrisy” on their criticism of the word. Unfortunately, Sargent and other lefties have distorted this to be just about one word, rather than the implications put behind it - specifically, whether or not a potential justice feels that their “empathy” makes them a better potential justice than one who “didn’t/doesn’t have it.”
Here’s Sargent earlier today, in an attempted “gotcha” moment (via ...
Come Saturday Morning: Hoist the Double Standard!
Firedoglake —
... nominated by a Democrat -- especially if the judge is a wench with darker skin than ours -- to use a tenth of the mannerisms used by our own beloved Antonin Scalia!
Lob all the usual anti-wench smears her way -- and don't forget the oblique (and not-so-oblique) bigotry, as well as the outright lies about her record! Why, we'll even wrench an innocuous comment of hers out of context and project our own racist attitudes onto it -- even though a Republican wench SCOTUS judge, Sandra Day O'Connor, said much the same thing once upon a time! ...
All Apologies
Firedoglake —
... that the Obama team (or at least Robert Gibbs) made on Sotomayor's behalf over remarks that were not only perfectly innocent and innocuous, but were similar in tone and content to remarks uttered by former Supreme Court Justice (and rock-ribbed Republican) Sandra Day O'Connor. ...
Correcting Greg Sargent and Other Liberals on the "Empathy" Issue
Right Wing News —
... digging to find the past uses of the word "empathy" by other Presidents - and other SCOTUS nominees - to "prove" the right's alleged "hypocrisy" on their criticism of the word. Unfortunately, Sargent and other lefties have distorted this to be just about one word, rather than the implications put behind it - specifically, whether or not a potential justice feels that their "empathy" makes them a better potential justice than one who "didn't/doesn't have it." Here's Sargent Friday , in an attempted "gotcha" moment (via Memeo ): Sonia Sotomayor is taking a ...
