Senate Vote on Judge Sotomayor Today at 3 p.m. ET
Posted by Keith Kamisugi | Filed under Confirmation Process
“As more than 13 hours of debate wrapped up Wednesday night, Sotomayor had the support of roughly two-thirds of the 100 senators, including eight Republicans,” reported the Washington Post today.
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Op-ed: ‘Empathy is important in making judgments’
Posted by Keith Kamisugi | Filed under Opinion
In an op-ed, “Empathy is important in making judgments,” published by the Oakland Tribune, Equal Justice Society board member Prof. Margaret Russell, a law professor at Santa Clara University and Marilyn Edelstein, an English professor at the same institution, discuss the notion of empathy in the context of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings.
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