This video was taken on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at Rep. Jim Moran's (D-VA) Town Hall meeting on Obama Deathcare (Howard Dean was there too) held at South Lakes High School in Reston, VA.We're doomed. I like the dummy that says "School grounds have very different First Amendment rights." Why is that? I also liked the the overlay "Will love his FEMA camp."
Nothing demonstrates the fatal dangers from judicial "empathy" more than Judge Sotomayor's decision in a 2008 case involving firemen who took an exam for promotion. After the racial mix of those who passed that test turned out to be predominantly white, with only a few blacks and Hispanics, the results werethrown out.All things being equal, who knew she could do it better than say...me...or you...just b/c she's a Latina woman and I'm a white man. I always thought the better person for the job should get the job regardless of skin color or background but what do I know, I'm just a conservative that thinks you should earn what you get out of life.
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,” -- Judge Sotomayor
“I would hope that a wise white male with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Latina woman who hasn’t lived that life,”The double standard being applied is so glaringly obvious. White male = oppressive majority. So she's such a strict constitutionalist that she's not going to apply this to her decisions? Please. We need justices that follow at the law and do not try to legislate from the bench.
Obama said he wants to nominate a justice with empathy for certain causes. Considering how he's rocked the boat as of late with his fellow liberals, who knows, maybe he'll shock us all and do the right thing and pick a justice with the best credentials for the job.The Pittsburgh Steelers have won six Super Bowl titles, seven AFC championships and hosted 10 conference games. No other AFC or NFC team can match this record. By contrast, the Arizona Cardinals' last championship victory was in 1947 when they were based in Chicago. In anyone's book, this is a gross disparity. Should the referees have the empathy to understand what it's like to be a perennial loser and what would you think of a referee whose decisions were guided by his empathy? Suppose a referee, in the name of compensatory justice, stringently applied pass interference or roughing the passer violations against the Steelers and less stringently against the Cardinals. Or, would you support a referee who refused to make offensive pass interference calls because he thought it was a silly rule? You'd probably remind him that the league makes the rules, not referees.I'm betting that most people would agree that football justice requires that referees apply the rules blindly and independent of the records or any other characteristic of the two teams. Moreover, I believe that most people would agree that referees should evenly apply the rules of the games even if they personally disagreed with some of the rules.The relationship between Supreme Court justices and the U.S. Constitution should be identical to that of referees and football rules.
More from Walter E. Willams here
While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with "empathy" for certain groups, he has in a more fundamental sense concealed the real goal -- getting judges who will ratify an ever-expanding scope ofthe power of the federal government and an ever-declining restraint by the Constitution of the United States. This is consistent with everything else that Obama has done in office and is consistent with his decades-long track record of alliances with people who reject the fundamentals of American society. What is at stake in Supreme Court nominations is the power of the federal government. "Empathy" is just camouflage, a soothing word for those who do not look beyond nice-sounding rhetoric.... And unfortunately, those who don't look beyond the nice sounding rhetoric number in the millions upon millions.
Since Justice David Souter is likely to be replaced by another liberal, it is all too easy to say that it is no big deal. But with all the indications already as to how the Obama administration is trying to remake America on many fronts, the time to begin alerting the public to the dangers is now.Maybe with enough trumpet sounding, squeaky gates and and some educating of the American public, we can avert disaster when the next justice calls it a career.
That we are discussing the next Supreme Court justice in terms of group "representation" is a sign of how far we have already strayed from the purpose of law and the weighty responsibility of appointing someone to sit for life on the highest court in the land.So long as we meet our quota, who cares which justice will make a better...well...justice. Right?