Right now Supreme court nominee Kagan hearing is underway. The repubs are hoping to have a show down & block her nomination, which is not going to happen. During her hearing, Kagan's association with activist and empathetic judges has been coming up a lot and they are tring to make an issue out of it. This was the case for the judge Sonia Sotomayor's hearing as well, so my question to you... should judges have compassion, empathy and be allowed to use their experience to arrive to a logical decision OR should they just interpert the law as it is and apply it?
forget that. The lady has no experience. She is all academic. I have yet to see a public defender elected and they get paid the lowest to defend the people of the united states. No more of these inexperience people on the court no matter how liberal or conservative they are. I hope she gets blocked.
I dont think she will be blocked. Wasnt Obama all academic b4 assuming a US senate job? you still have not answered the question tho..... what is your take about empathetic judges etc..?
You aren't suppose to legislate from the bench. It is their job simply to interpret the law but who are we kidding. Asking a human to have no emotions is like asking a machine to show emotion. It just can't be done all the time.
Technically speaking, the Supreme Court is always legislating from the bench. They aren't interpreting the law, they are interpreting the constitution. Also, public defenders tend to suck ass significantly. That's in part why so many poor people go to jail. Not sure if that's what we want on the bench.
wow so it is the public defender. Here I was thinking it was them not knowing the so well. Well glad to know the poor people know the law good enough to defend themselves. I want someone who has a long history of actually defended people who are poor and middle class like BJ Bernstein. There isn't a lot of them. I also want term limits on that job.
Plus, the Supreme Court often goes into issues that have to/need to be redefined or in some cases, defined. With that said, a Justice will often have to free thick & not regurgitate constitution and law.
if their wasnt any activist judges that legislated from the bench then brown vs. board of education would not have been what it is thurgood said it best ""you do what you think is right and let the law catch up,"
NO! If there weren't any racist people then brown vs board would not even be an idea. It was congress that should have made it a law to give equal opportunity to all American children. The president enforces it like Eisenhower in the rock 9.
the republicans are coming off as racists http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...hall-takes-center-stage-at-kagan-hearings.php
