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Originally Posted by mheisig
Funny you'd pick that quote because that's precisely one of the reasons I won't vote for Obama.
I think the composition of the Supreme Court and the appointments a president gets to make is one of the most crucial factors come election time.
Someone who is going to base judge appointments on emotion and empathy scares the living daylights on me. I want experience, reason, rationale and the guts to make tough decisions, not someone who is going to vote based on some empathetic emotional whim.
There's a lot of factors that would go into making a good judge, empathy being one of many. For Obama to seemingly highlight that as the only one that's important scares me.
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Well, that's where we part ways. I believe it is essential that a judge be able to reconcile current law and a new issue facing the court. Without the ability to "
intellectually identify with or vicarious experience of feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another" a judge lacks the ability to make sound judgment necessary to resolve cases without precedence (what the Supreme Court routinely does).