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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Their life experiences have very little in common with the growing number of Americans who feel completely disenfranchised and shut out under Obama[/quote]

You clearly don't know anything about Sonia Sotomayor. You really should fix that.[/quote]

Princeton followed by Yale Law and then elite law firms and the federal bench.  J-Lo grew up in the Bronx, too, but it's been a while since either had to deal with ordinary Americans.   [/quote]

If life experience were the deciding factor for judges, President, or any national elective office, very few of the sitting officials would qualify. All these people are lawyers. Pardon me if I would actually like some smart lawyers on the Supreme Court. I don't want Joe the Plumber deciding major legal questions; I want someone who is trained in the law and brilliant to boot. The highly charged case are the ones anyone can understand -- death penalty, abortion, whatever -- but the majority of the court's decisions concern legal issues that require scholarship and interpretation, not ideology.

In any event, PP, it sounds like you are advocating for judges who are empathetic -- those who may not have lived an experience (because none of us have all lived the same experience) but who can empathize and put themselves in the place of those who have. I happen to agree with that view. And it's why I think Obama's court picks have been excellent. I will note that when Obama articulated this philosophy years ago, the Republicans mocked and derided it.[/quote]

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