Oppose ‘Empathy,’ Defend The Law

What point is there in staging a big fight against the first high court nominee of Hispanic extraction (discounting Justice Benjamin Cardozo's Portuguese blood)?

That is the question pundits are asking in the wake of President Obama's court choice of South Bronx native Sonia Sotomayor. Add to her ethnicity Sotomayor's rise from inner-city poverty after her father's death during her childhood, the White House's shrewd highlighting of her education at Catholic schools, plus her lifelong struggle against diabetes and it's hard not to find the political math coming out in her favor. More...

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