Letter to the Editor
May 14, 2009
'Empathy' Can Depend on Point of View
If we require "judicial empathy," we should require it not only in word, but also in deed, writes Brian J. Goldenfeld.
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President Barack Obama proclaimed recently that "respect for the law requires judicial empathy, the ability to see the world from other people's points of view." (see "GOP Taps Sessions for Top Judiciary Spot," Daily Journal, May 6). This raises the question: empathy toward whose point of view? Allow me to point to Plessy v. Ferguson as a failed Supreme Court decision that "created a theoretical 'separa...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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