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.
Read the piece here.
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Ruben Navarrette: GOP needs ‘crash course in Latinos 101′
Posted by Keith Kamisugi | Filed under Opinion
San Diego Union-Tribune columnist Ruben Navarrette writes today:
Sonia Sotomayor once said that, when she arrived at Princeton University fresh from the Bronx, she felt like “a visitor landing in an alien country.”
Well, after needlessly subjecting Sotomayor to a four-day spectacle of interrogation, humiliation and condescension, the seven Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee should feel [...]
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