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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: nigel bates who wrote (55011)5/29/2009 11:48:54 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 149317
 
Much of your judicial system is based on English Common Law,

It took the principles from that English Common Law had developed, but they are mostly incorporated in to statue law. To the extent you have any common law type process still operating as a principle of our legal system, it can be overwritten by statue law, and should automatically be overridden by any contrary part of the constitution.

there is clear evidence that Sotomayor does not confuse empathy with sentimentality

Its not an issue of confusing empathy with sentimentality. Deciding primarily based on either would be outside of the judges proper responsibility. Having empathy, and perhaps sentimentality, is fine, maybe even good. The issue is whether either takes precedence over the actual law.
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