Message:
OBAMA:
“We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what
it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what
it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old --
and that’s the criteria by which I’ll be selecting my judges.”
When defending his vote against Justice John Roberts’ confirmation,
Obama explained that the standard for a justice must be “one’s deepest
values, one’s core concerns, one’s broader perspectives on how the
world works, and the depth and breadth of one’s empathy.”
That seems to fly right in the face of the oath of a Justice:
Supreme Court justices must “solemnly swear that I will administer
justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and
to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and
perform all the duties incumbent on me as a justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States under the Constitution and laws of the
United States, so help me God.”
