Thomas Sowell,Townhall.com
Obama may appoint one of these "empathetic"Lesbian judges
Justice David Souter’s retirement from the Supreme Court presents President Barack Obama with his first opportunity to appoint someone to the High Court. People who are speculating about whether the next nominee will be a woman,a Hispanic or whatever,are missing the point.
That we are discussing the next Supreme Court justice in terms of group “representation”is a sign of how far we have already strayed from the purpose of law and the weighty responsibility of appointing someone to sit for life on the highest court in the land.
That President Obama has made “empathy”with certain groups one of his criteria for choosing a Supreme Court nominee is a dangerous sign of how much further the Supreme Court may be pushed away from the rule of law and toward even more arbitrary judicial edicts to advance the agenda of the left and set it in legal concrete,immune from the democratic process.