By JOSH GERSTEIN,Politico
isn't justice supposed to be blind?
When President Barack Obama said last week that he’d be looking for “empathy” in his Supreme Court nominee,he gave both liberals and conservatives a launching point for their Sunday-show debates.
“What does that mean? Usually that’s a code word for an activist judge,” Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said on ABC’s “This Week.” He said a judge needs to “be fair to the rich,the poor,the weak,the strong,the sick [and] the disabled.”
“I may have empathy for,for the little guy in a fight with a big corporation,but the law may not be on his side. So I think that’s a concern,” former Republican Party Chairman Ed Gillespie said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“What I hear in President Obama’s statement is that he wants the justices of the court to try to understand the real world we live in and the impact of some of these decisions. Apply the law,but do it in a sensible fashion,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on “Fox News Sunday.”