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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: ChinuSFO who wrote (55029)5/29/2009 5:09:28 PM
From: nigel bates  Respond to of 149317
 
>>you need only look at Clarence Thomas to conclude that she is wrong and that race and experience does not always determine a judges outlook on issues.<<

Clarence is absolutely fine with empathy, apparently:

washingtonmonthly.com
"...I believe, Senator, that I can make a contribution, that I can bring something different to the Court, that I can walk in the shoes of the people who are affected by what the Court does. You know, on my current court I have occasion to look out the window that faces C Street, and there are converted buses that bring in the criminal defendants to our criminal justice system, bus load after bus load. And you look out and you say to yourself, and I say to myself almost every day, 'But for the grace of God there go I..."