Senate Debate on Empathy
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2005-09-22 -
Obama on Judge Roberts
That last mile can only be determined on the basis of one's deepest values,
one's core concerns, one's broader perspectives on how the world works, and the
depth and breadth of one's empathy.
2007-07-17 - Obama @ Planned Parenthood
And we need somebody who’s got the heart—the empathy—to recognize what
it’s like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it’s
like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old—and that’s the
criteria by which I’ll be selecting my judges.
2008-03-02 - Westerville, OH - Town Hall Meeting
"What I want on the bench are people who have
enough empathy, enough feeling for what ordinary people are going through."
2009-05-01 - Obama on Souter retirement
I view that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with
people's hopes and struggles as an essential ingredient for arriving as just
decisions and outcomes.
2008-01-22
- Christopher Smith
On Sunday, Senator Barack
Obama criticized Americans for both our moral deficit
and what he called our ``empathy
deficit'' and called upon us to be our brothers' and sisters' keepers.
abortion culture that he and others so assiduously promote
lacks all empathy for unborn children
proabortion movement is the quintessential example of an ``empathy
deficit.''
2008-11-20
- Bob Corker
I have tremendous empathy for
them and their families
2009-05-03 - Meet The Press - Arlen Specter - Empathy
But if you talk about empathy, you may be talking about
something which is, which is broader
2009-05-05 - Mitch McConnell
the President seemed to stress
empathy over and above a judge's role of applying the law without prejudice.
2009-05-06 - Ted Poe
He has said that the new Justice ``will have
empathy and understanding for people,''
empathy to understand what it's
like to be poor or a minority, gay or disabled or old.''
Then he also said this week, ``The quality of
empathy of understanding and identifying with
people's hopes and struggles is an essential ingredient for
arriving at just doctrines and outcomes.''
empathy or a social or political
agenda they want impose on the whole Nation
2009-05-13 - Roland Burris
(no video)
God-given sense of empathy and
personal life experiences.
we must embrace his independent legacy by
confirming someone who will bring diversity, empathy,
2009-06-09 - Jon Kyl
the empathy, the background, the
experience in other matters.
2009-06-17 - Jeff Sessions
scales have the power to tip them one way or the other based
on
empathy, their feelings or their personal views
her
empathy above the law and the evidence
2009-06-17 - Patrick Leahy
2009-06-16 20:14:09... Sound a little bit like an attack on
empathy? [laughter] of course, i would mention...
2009-06-16
20:14:17... I would mention that the opposite of
empathy is indifference.
Do we really want...
2009-06-17 - Richard Durbin
We do not need judges with empathy
But if empathy means we do not need judges who
understand the reality of the workplace, if empathy means we would say to Lilly
Ledbetter
I want judges with empathy. I want them to know the
real world
2009-06-18 - Whitehouse ACS panel
nominees are activists because they have, to quote President
Obama, "empathy
a rich life experience and natural
empathy are at odds with the wise exercise
of judicial discretion
President Obama's description of that good judgment as
"empathy."
Senator Sessions, recently suggested that President Obama's
use of the word "empathy"
indicates a belief "that a judge should use his or her
personal feelings about a
particular group or issue to decide a case
Ginsburg noted, as a result of the lack of understanding and
empathy with those in the workplace,
President Obama's concern for judicial empathy, really the
issue?
2009-06-23 - Gibbs
The President is not feeling any
empathy towards me.
2009-06-23 - Jeff Sessions
He says he wants someone who will use empathy--empathy to
certain groups to decide cases.
That may sound nice, but empathy toward one is prejudice
toward the other, is it not?
So I think empathy as a standard, preference as a standard is
contrary to the judicial oath
2009-06-23 - Mitch McConnell
to the so-called empathy
standard that President Obama
she believes having empathy
for certain groups means when it comes to judging,
they will find the empathy
standard extremely troubling
I don't believe a judge should rule based on
empathy, personal preferences, or political
beliefs, but if any case cried out for empathy--if
any case cried out for empathy--it would be
this one.
`empathy''--where he says
he wants judges to empathize with certain groups but, implicitly, not with
others?
2009-06-23 - Bob Menendez
Sotomayor's personal background is rich with the joys and
hardships that millions of American families share.
2009-06-24 - Orrin Hatch
he will appoint judges who have
empathy for certain groups and that personal empathy
is an essential ingredient for making judicial decisions.
the legislative branch may employ
empathy to make the law,
2009-06-24 - Sam Brownback
the empathy to recognize what
it's like to be a young teenage mom;
the empathy to understand what it
is like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old
While I think it is admirable to have
empathy,
2009-07-07 - Jeff Sessions
depth and breadth of one's
empathy.'' He means a judge's personal core concerns, values, and empathy.
What is empathy?
Is that what an
empathy is?
President's notion of empathy, and I will share a few
thoughts on that
are making too much of it, that empathy
sounds fine to me
2009-07-13 - Mitch McConnell
So it
might be useful to consider some of the groups who have found themselves on the
short end of the ``empathy'' standard.
Someone who appears to have ``empathy'' for certain groups
The losing parties in these cases might not have belonged to the groups that the President had in mind when he was articulating his ``empathy'' standard
2009-07-15 - Charles Grassley
especially regarding the question
of "empathy" which President Obama
Day 1 Judiciary Committee - Sotomayor
(discussion about
empathy in the Senate)
2009-07-13 - Senate Session
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2009-07-13 11:10:17 |
... the groups on the short end of the empathy standard. there are those that engage... |
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2009-07-13 11:11:07 |
... would: someone who appears to have empathy for certain groups who appear before... |
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2009-07-13 11:15:44 |
... had if mine when he articulated empathy standard. they underscore the hazards... |
2009-07-13 - Senate - Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing, Day 1, Part 1
| Jeff Sessions | |
| 2009-07-13 10:12:50 | ... quote, "the depth and breadth of one's empathy," close quote, as well as his words,... |
| 2009-07-13 10:12:50 | ... a number of years, and I fear that this empathy standard is another step down the road to... |
| 2009-07-13 10:12:50 | ... to favor one team over another. Call it empathy, call it prejudice or call it sympathy,... |
| 2009-07-13 10:12:50 | ... to me that in Ricci, Judge Sotomayor's empathy for one group of firefighters turned out... |
| 2009-07-13 10:12:50 | ... is, of course, the logical flaw in the empathy standard. Empathy for one party is always... |
| 2009-07-13 10:12:50 | ... logical flaw in the empathy standard. Empathy for one party is always prejudiced... |
| 2009-07-13 10:33:13 | ... President Obama says that personal empathy is an essential ingredient in judicial... |
| Chuck Grassley | |
| 2009-07-13 10:50:40 | ... with certain groups in particular. This empathy standard is troubling to me. In fact,... |
| 2009-07-13 10:50:40 | ... I'm concerned that judging based on empathy is really just legislating from the... |
| 2009-07-13 10:50:40 | ... and preferences. President Obama's empathy standard appears to encourage judges to... |
| 2009-07-13 10:50:40 | ... believes that you measure up to his empathy standard. That worries me. I've reviewed... |
| Jon Kyl | |
| 2009-07-13 11:07:39 | ... including employment of his or her empathy for one of the parties to the dispute.... |
| 2009-07-13 11:07:39 | ... Of course, every person should have empathy. And uncertain situations, such as... |
| 2009-07-13 11:07:39 | ... be empathetic. The problem arises when empathy and other biases or prejudices that are... |
2009-07-13 - Senate - Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing, Day 1, Part 2
| Sheldon Whitehouse | |
| 2009-07-13 12:10:00 | ... should be different -- if you have empathy for those people in this job, you are... |
| 2009-07-13 12:10:00 | ... our constitutional structure, and the empathy President Obama saw in you has... |
| 2009-07-13 12:10:00 | ... your broad and balanced background and empathy prepare you well for this constitutional... |
| Tom Coburn | |
| 2009-07-13 12:20:10 | ... someone who's got the heart and the empathy to recognize what it's like to be a young... |
| 2009-07-13 12:20:10 | ... realize how astounding that is? The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor,... |
| 2009-07-13 12:20:10 | ... Senator Obama referred his empathy standard when he voted against Chief... |
| 2009-07-13 12:20:10 | ... and the depth handbreadths of one's empathy. I believe that standard is antithetical... |
| 2009-07-13 12:20:10 | ... over the other. And that's where empathy comes from. Judge Sotomayor, you must... |
2009-07-13 - Senate -
Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing, Day 1, Part 3
Dick Durbin
2009-07-13 12:33:24... revealed a stunning lack of
empathy about
the eighth-grade victim. One of the...
Day
2
Judiciary Committee - Sotomayor
2009-07-14 -
Senate -
Judge
Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings
2009-07-14 - Senate -
Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing, Day 2, Part 4
Suddenly a lot of talk about sympathy
Russ Feingold
2009-07-14 14:56:50... a lot of talk about this concept of
empathy in the
context of your nomination. A...
2009-07-14 14:56:50... nomination. A judge's ability to feel
empathy doesn't, of
course, mean the judge...
Jon Kyl
2009-07-14 15:14:12... upon some extralegal concept such as
empathy or some other concept other than a legal...
2009-07-14 - Senate -
Sotomayor
Confirmation Hearing, Day 2, Part 5
Chuck Schumer
2009-07-14 15:53:09... to you a little bit about what having
empathy means, and
then I want to turn to...
2009-07-14 15:53:09... in the future. Now, I believe that
empathy is the
opposite of indifference,...
2009-07-14 15:56:19... of a judge who ruled based on
empathy, not law,
one would expect that the most...
2009-07-14 16:06:27... you wouldn't have much sympathy or
empathy for this
officer or his actions? Is that...
2009-07-14 16:06:50... do this all day long, where sympathy,
empathy would be on
one side, but you found rule...
2009-07-14 16:13:00... some are seeking to suggest that your
empathy or sympathy
overrules rule of law, this...
2009-07-14 16:13:00... in the middle of the 2nd Circuit. If
empathy were
governing you, I don't think you...
Sonia Sotomayor Nomination Reaction
2009-07-14
17:39:14... of president bush referring to the
empathy of
Clarence Thomas.
it's only recently...
Judge Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings
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Sheldon Whitehouse
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2009-07-14 08:11:48 |
... even use the word everyone thee in empathy in his statement. and the empathy... |
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2009-07-14 08:11:51 |
... in empathy in his statement. and the empathy question is one where i think the... |
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2009-07-14 08:16:21 |
... senator had to say yesterday about empathy. like the American people i have... |
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2009-07-14 08:16:27 |
... a number of years and i fear this empathy standard is a no another step down the... |
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2009-07-14 08:21:14 |
... a stretch. she tried to deflect the empathy charge a bit by saying at least what... |
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2009-07-14 08:21:53 |
... a short anecdotal thing about the empathy problem, because here's the situation.... |
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2009-07-14 08:22:19 |
... myself in their predicament. that's empathy and that's dangerous to the system and... |
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2009-07-14 08:22:39 |
... of that's why they don't want empathy in this white house or with people,... |
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2009-07-14 08:24:01 |
... response was you want to talk about empathy, well, let's look at the conservative... |
Day 3
Judiciary Committee - Sotomayor
2009-07-15 -
Senate -
Senator Grassley on Judge Sotomayor
Confirmation Hearings
2009-07-15 09:06:34...
on appointing someone based on
empathy signals to many people in this country...
2009-07-15 - Senate -
Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing, Day 3, Part 3
Arlen Specter
2009-07-15 14:04:53... lot has been made of the issue of
empathy, but that
characteristic is not exactly...
2009-07-15 14:04:53... constitutional law, which I think puts
empathy in an okay
status, in an okay...
Orrin Hatch
2009-07-15
16:45:10... intelligent person, who has great
empathy, unquote.
president bush then said that...
2009-07-15 16:45:24... between the human quality of
empathy and the judicial
quality or duty,...
2009-07-15 16:45:36... then saying that a judge's
personal
empathy is an
essential ingredient for deciding...
2009-07-15 16:45:43... your own view, distinguishing human
empathy from judicial
impartiality or mixing...
2009-07-15 16:45:47... or mixing them together so that
empathy becomes
part of the judicial decision...
2009-07-15 16:46:00... presidents have used the word
empathy and each
of them has given it their...
Day 4
Judiciary Committee - Sotomayor
2009-07-16 -
Senate Session
2009-07-16
14:38:57... put a premium on the nominee having
empathy. well, it appears
that he got his...
2009-07-16 14:39:04... it appears that he got his wish.
empathy in and of itself
is not a bad thing....
2009-07-16 14:39:23... pull to rule one way or the other.
empathy belongs best in
legislatures where it...
2009-07-16 - Senate -
Senator Sessions on Judge Sotomayor Hearings
2009-07-16 13:30:25... OBAMA BEEN A LONG TIME. HIS
EMPATHY STANDARD
AND SO SHE MADE OTHER POSITIVE...
2009-07-16 - Senate -
Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing, Day 4, Part 2
Jon Kyl
2009-07-16 12:35:14... even be persuaded to have a little
empathy for this
last mile here. I think you're...
2009-07-16 - Senate -
Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing, Day 4, Minority Issues Panel
Mr. Henderson
2009-07-16 14:42:25... second, her personal background and her
empathy for others
who have had to work hard to...
Lt. Vagus
2009-07-16 14:54:13... We did not ask for sympathy or
empathy; we asked only for even-handed...
2009-07-16 15:18:00... have any reason not to use the word "empathy."
I have a great deal of empathy for...
2009-07-16 15:18:00... word "empathy." I have a great deal of
empathy for the
circumstances that they have...
2009-07-16 15:34:48... you're getting dangerously close to
empathy
--(laughter) -- but I happen to agree...
2009-07-16 - Senate -
Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing, Day 4, Legal Scholars Panel
2009-07-16
18:12:42... displayed sympathy and perhaps
empathy for criminals that
may be well...
2009-07-16 18:15:31... must have sympathy for, must have
empathy for. madam
chairman, i appreciate your...
2009-07-16 18:19:17... or personal values such as
empathy. even with the
sincere purpose of...
2009-07-16 18:40:53... tim. to me, there is one place where
empathy does play a role
in a judge's decisions...
2009-07-16 18:41:29... defendant, about other matters, and
empathy cannot help but
play a role in that....
2009-07-20 -
Senate -
Judicial Proceeding
(discussion about empathy
in the Senate)
| Mitch McConnell | |
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2009-07-20 13:27:19 |
... and the depth and breadth of one's empathy. what's come to be known as "the... |
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2009-07-20 13:27:25 |
... what's come to be known as "the empathy standard." so over the course of the... |
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2009-07-20 13:28:05 |
... repeatedly throughout this debate, empathy is a very good quality in itself, and... |
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2009-07-20 13:28:20 |
... but when it comes to judging, empathy is only good if you're lucky enough to... |
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2009-07-20 13:28:27 |
... group that the judge in question has empathy for. in those cases, it's the judge,... |
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2009-07-20 13:29:39 |
... introduction of new standard -- the empathy standard -- the empathy standard --... |
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2009-07-20 13:29:42 |
... -- the empathy standard -- the empathy standard -- forces us to reevaluate... |
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2009-07-20 13:30:03 |
... environment? i believe it is. if empathy is the new standard, then the burden is... |
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2009-07-20 13:30:28 |
... they should. unfortunately the new empathy standard requires a measure of... |
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2009-07-20 13:35:34 |
... this is the real-world effect of the empathy standard. if the judge has empathy for... |
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2009-07-20 13:35:37 |
... empathy standard. if the judge has empathy for you, great. but if she has it for... |
2009-07-28 - Day 5 - Judiciary Committee -
Committee Approves Sotomayor
Vote on Judge Sotomayor Confirmation
| Orin Hatch | |
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2009-07-28 10:23:41 |
... personal values, perspectives and empathy would lead him to results that senator... |
| Chuck Grassley | |
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2009-07-28 10:30:37 |
... judge sotomayor measures up to his empathy standard, which encourages judges to... |
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2009-07-28 10:30:46 |
... and preferences. this radical empathy standard stands in stark opposition to... |
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2009-07-28 10:30:59 |
... repudiated president Obama's empathy standard, but Sotomayor's record both... |
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2009-07-28 10:40:16 |
... who rejected president obama's empathy standard? only time will tell and i... |
| Lindsey Graham | |
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2009-07-28 10:50:27 |
... than she can understand mine and this empathy idea makes us all kind of dr. Phils. i... |
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2009-07-28 10:51:04 |
... character, so when i rejected the empathy heart standard and went back to what... |
| John Cornyn | |
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2009-07-28 11:05:04 |
... and losers based on some subjective empathy standard or whatever is in the judge's... |
| Dick Durbin | |
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2009-07-28 11:11:56 |
... lot has been said about the issue of empathy and this question of the wise Latina... |
| Sheldon Whitehouse | |
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2009-07-28 11:29:21 |
... i do not wish judges without empathy who will ignore the long and proud... |
| Arlen Specter | |
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2009-07-28 11:42:15 |
... and then the business of empathy. there is no doubt about the history... |
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2009-07-28 11:42:26 |
... in our country responding to empathy empathy. the life of the law section... |
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2009-07-28 11:42:27 |
... our country responding to empathy empathy. the life of the law section... |
2009-07-30 -
Senate Session
(discussion about empathy
in the Senate)
2009-07-30 - Lamar Alexander
2009-07-30
10:03:38... in the depth and breadth of one's
empathy."
2009-08-03 -
Senate
Session
(discussion about empathy
in the Senate)
| Tom Udall | (good speech on empathy) |
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2009-08-03 16:26:38 |
... have done their best to give empathy a bad name. i think that is a shame. i... |
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2009-08-03 16:26:48 |
... confirm sonia sotomayor but allow her empathy to be discredited as a human emotion... |
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2009-08-03 16:27:12 |
... justice thomas's description of empathy captures one thing sotomayor would... |
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2009-08-03 16:28:11 |
... difficult job she benefited from her empathy. judge sotomayor felt the pain and... |
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2009-08-03 16:29:08 |
... a federal prosecutor, i learned that empathy is every by bit as important as legal... |
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2009-08-03 16:29:41 |
... men and women who deserve justice. empathy allows us to recognize that, and that... |
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2009-08-03 16:29:54 |
... of this body have suggested that empathy is inconsistent with impartial... |
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2009-08-03 16:30:24 |
... think produces decisions like -- empathy produces decisions like dred scott and... |
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2009-08-03 16:31:22 |
... it another way, they failed to show empathy and generations of black citizens paid... |
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2009-08-03 16:31:30 |
... the price. of course, a judge with empathy must also determine who to empathize... |
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2009-08-03 16:31:39 |
... one of my colleagues has argued that empathy for somebody is always skreplgs against... |
2009-08-04 -
Senate session
(discussion about empathy in the Senate)
Mitch McConnell
| Jeff Sessions | |
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2009-08-04 18:14:55 |
... with the president indicating that empathy was a standard that he believes should... |
| Sheldon Whitehouse | |
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2009-08-04 19:40:52 |
... in their shoes. perhaps with a little empathy ourselves, it might be easier to... |
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2009-08-04 19:44:42 |
... sotomayor's wide experience gives her empathy for those people so that she gives... |
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2009-08-04 19:48:32 |
... and thoughtful people will note that empathy -- empathy is a common thread through... |
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2009-08-04 19:48:32 |
... people will note that empathy -- empathy is a common thread through each of... |
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2009-08-04 19:48:36 |
... of those characteristics. why might empathy matter? why might it make a difference?... |
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2009-08-04 19:50:31 |
... punished as crime. he had sufficient empathy with th widows and children of the... |
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2009-08-04 19:52:14 |
... of two judges? one, who had the empathy to see black menace men, as victims and... |
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2009-08-04 19:52:42 |
... opinion. that is what we mean by empathy. and while the divisions in our... |
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2009-08-04 19:53:04 |
... to do with the merits of their case: empathy to lock through to look through the... |
| Orin Hatch | |
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2009-08-04 19:57:25 |
... and depth and breadth of their empathy." as a presidential candidate he... |
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2009-08-04 19:57:31 |
... to appoint judges who, indeed, have empathy for certain groups. and as president he... |
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2009-08-04 19:57:35 |
... he has said a judge's personal empathy is an single ingredient in judicial... |
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2009-08-04 20:00:53 |
... obama says that a judge's personal empathy is an essential ingredient for doing... |
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2009-08-04 20:01:51 |
... the law rather than their personal empathy to decide cases. the question is: which... |
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2009-08-04 20:06:41 |
... either inside themselves to their empathy or outside to foreign law for ideas and... |
| James Inhofe | |
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2009-08-04 20:30:08 |
... court nominee, he would use an empathy standard. judges may and should have... |
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2009-08-04 20:30:14 |
... standard. judges may and should have empathy they must be impartial. if empathy is a... |
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2009-08-04 20:30:17 |
... empathy they must be impartial. if empathy is a guiding standard, with whom should... |
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2009-08-04 20:30:20 |
... standard, with whom should a judge empathy? more empathy to one race, gender, one... |
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2009-08-04 20:30:22 |
... whom should a judge empathy? more empathy to one race, gender, one religion, one... |
| Sherrod Brown | |
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2009-08-04 20:38:55 |
... lawsuits have parties. if you have empathy for one party, if you have a sympathy... |
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2009-08-04 20:46:08 |
... that he wants a judge who will show empathy, i ask, who does he show empathy for?... |
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2009-08-04 20:46:11 |
... empathy, i ask, who does he show empathy for? you show empathy for one party,... |
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2009-08-04 20:46:13 |
... does he show empathy for? you show empathy for one party, don't you have a bias... |
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2009-08-04 20:46:18 |
... a bias against the other? who got empathy in the firefighters' case? was that... |
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2009-08-04 20:52:18 |
... we have our life experiences. " empathy, perhaps. justice samuel alito, a... |
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2009-08-04 20:52:36 |
... and i do take that into account." empathy, perhaps? i don't recall when judge... |
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2009-08-04 20:52:44 |
... committee that people questioned his empathy and questioned his ability to do his... |
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2009-08-04 20:53:00 |
... as i -- as i hear this discussion of empathy and i hear this accusation of judge... |
| Charles Grassley | |
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2009-08-04 21:15:24 |
... -- quote --has -- quote, unquote -- "empathy," someone who will embrace his or her... |
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2009-08-04 21:16:17 |
... on how the world works and depth of empathy. legal process alone will not lead you... |
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2009-08-04 21:17:48 |
... the law says. a mandate of judicial empathy turns that traditional legal concept... |
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2009-08-04 21:18:00 |
... in favor of a lawless standard. if empathy for a litigant's situation becomes a... |
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2009-08-04 21:19:24 |
... decision is affected by his or her empathy, or sympathy, whatever you want to... |
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2009-08-04 21:20:05 |
... the law says. justice is blind. empathy is not. empathetic judges look at the... |
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2009-08-04 21:20:47 |
... Obama's judicial standard of empathy is problematic and why we should be... |
2009-08-05 -
Senate session
(discussion about empathy in the Senate)
| Patrick Leahy | |
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2009-08-05 10:04:56 |
... who nominated him spoke of his empathy. of course that nominee was clarence... |
| Amy Klobuchar | |
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2009-08-05 10:47:46 |
... her in his words because of the empathy standard. and i kind of put the pillow... |
| John Cornyn | |
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2009-08-05 11:55:48 |
... statement, as well. we agreed that empathy or what's in a person's heart, to... |
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2009-08-05 11:56:41 |
... that then senator obama regarding empathy or what was in a person's heart. i was... |
| Pat Roberts | |
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2009-08-05 13:00:19 |
... and the depth and breadth of one's empathy," thus the entrance of the empathy... |
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2009-08-05 13:00:20 |
... empathy," thus the entrance of the empathy issue to this debate. i i... |
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2009-08-05 13:00:40 |
... if they do that, that they don't have empathy. i would agree -- and i think... |
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2009-08-05 13:00:45 |
... everybody on the supreme court has empathy. but the role of a judge is not to... |
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2009-08-05 13:05:07 |
... everybody plays by the rules, not by empathy. but it is a limited role. nobody ever... |
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2009-08-05 13:05:24 |
... to the rule of law as opposed to empathy. for these reasons, i oppose her... |
| Roger Wicker | |
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2009-08-05 13:39:55 |
... obama said, "i view the quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with... |
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2009-08-05 13:40:07 |
... at just decisions and outcomes." empathy is a great personal virtue, but there... |
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2009-08-05 13:40:11 |
... but there is a difference between empathy as a person and empathy as a judge.... |
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2009-08-05 13:40:14 |
... between empathy as a person and empathy as a judge. judges should use the law... |
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2009-08-05 13:40:24 |
... experiences or personal view or empathy. personal biases and empathy have no... |
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2009-08-05 13:40:26 |
... view or empathy. personal biases and empathy have no place in reaching a just... |
| Charles Schumer | (video is jumpy) |
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2009-08-05 14:11:30 |
... but the cases show that any perceived empathy did not affect her results. in fact,... |
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2009-08-05 14:12:17 |
... be made by the courts." if you have empathy you are certainly going to decide with... |
| Jon Kyl | |
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2009-08-05 15:10:02 |
... hard cases, a judge should rely on empathy and what's in his or her heart. and it... |
2009-08-06 -
Senate session
(discussion about empathy in the Senate)
length: 10 hours, 30 minutes
Washington, dc, united states
| Dick Durbin | 11 am |
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2009-08-06 11:55:00 |
... last issue to address is that word "empathy." judge sotomayor's critics have... |
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2009-08-06 11:55:10 |
... and raise doubts of her objectivity. empathy is simply the ability to see another... |
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2009-08-06 11:55:52 |
... and points of view. that is what empathy is all about. judge sotomayor... |
| George Voinovich | |
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2009-08-06 11:59:52 |
... and the depth and breadth of one's empathy. in answer to a question from senator... |
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2009-08-06 12:08:36 |
... obama promoted -- quote -- "an empathy standard." to determine if he would... |
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2009-08-06 12:09:49 |
... all my colleagues to reject the obama empathy standard, just as judge sotomayor... |
| Charles Grassley | 12 pm |
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2009-08-06 12:49:51 |
... judge needed to have, in his words, "empathy" to decide the hard cases. he said,... |
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2009-08-06 12:50:11 |
... and the depth and breadth of one's empathy in those difficult cases, the critical... |
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2009-08-06 12:50:29 |
... obama further elaborated on this empathy standard -- quote -- "in those 5% of... |
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2009-08-06 12:50:54 |
... said, "who's got the heart and the empathy to recognize what it is like to be a... |
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2009-08-06 12:50:59 |
... like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor... |
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2009-08-06 12:51:18 |
... well there in that quote about the empathy that those of us who are elected ought... |
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2009-08-06 12:51:41 |
... with the belief that she meets his empathy standard. president obama's empathy... |
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2009-08-06 12:51:44 |
... empathy standard. president obama's empathy standard has been widely criticized as... |
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2009-08-06 12:51:56 |
... and that's my point; that because an empathy standard necessarily connotes standards... |
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2009-08-06 12:52:15 |
... repudiated president obama's empathy standard at her confirmation hearing.... |
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2009-08-06 12:54:25 |
... the law. no matter what you call it, empathy, compassion, personal bias, or... |
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2009-08-06 12:55:17 |
... in ideology or because their there is empathy for one of the parties. their empathy... |
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2009-08-06 12:55:21 |
... for one of the parties. their empathy -- an empathy standard for judging... |
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2009-08-06 12:55:21 |
... of the parties. their empathy -- an empathy standard for judging would betray the... |
| Barbara Boxer | (addresses what it's like for a girl to be striped searched.) |
| 2009-08-06 13:54:21 | |
| Jeff Sessions | 2 pm |
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2009-08-06 14:03:15 |
... bench would now have to meet an "empathy" standard which requires judges to... |
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2009-08-06 14:03:25 |
... "the depth and breadth of their empathy," and "their billion billion"their... |
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2009-08-06 14:03:49 |
... constitution itself. the president's empathy standard is much more than a rhetorical... |
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2009-08-06 14:04:17 |
... philosophy now under the guise of empathy that has led judges to ban the pledge... |
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2009-08-06 14:05:39 |
... bias standard. the power to rule on empathy is the power to rule on religion... |
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2009-08-06 14:05:50 |
... rights of any or all and embraces empathy at the expense of objectivity and... |
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2009-08-06 14:07:51 |
... herself ended up rejecting the very empathy standard the president has used when... |
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2009-08-06 14:08:42 |
... or whether or not it is abandoned. empathy-based rulings no matter how... |
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2009-08-06 14:10:00 |
... real compassion is not found in the empathy standard but in following the... |
| Patrick Leahy | |
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2009-08-06 14:12:56 |
... for the supreme court to substitute "empathy" for the rule of law. these kittics... |
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2009-08-06 14:15:41 |
... not say that he viewed compassion or empathy as a substitute for the rule of law.... |
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2009-08-06 14:15:47 |
... he has never said he would substitute empathy for the rule of law. that's a false... |
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2009-08-06 14:18:34 |
... an intelligent person who has great empathy. some of those choosing to oppose this... |
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2009-08-06 14:18:49 |
... that president Obama is pitting empathy against the rule of law. not so. not... |
| Mitch McConnell | |
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2009-08-06 14:28:28 |
... certain groups. and as i've said, empathy is a fine quality. but in the... |
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2009-08-06 14:28:58 |
... eager to repudiate the so-called empathy standard. but her right writings... |
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2009-08-06 14:29:26 |
... they ended up on the short end of the empathy standard. and the consequences were... |
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2009-08-06 14:32:28 |
... the real-world consequences of the empathy standard in which judges choose to see... |
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2009-08-06 14:32:47 |
... who did not farewell under the empathy standard, may have put it best.... |
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2009-08-06 14:32:59 |
... said, "we did not ask for sympathy or empathy. we ask only for evenhanded... |
2009-09-17 - Jeff Sessions on Hamilton
2009-09-17
13:52:49... Has embraced president Obama's
empathy standard. Indeed, he said as much in...
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2009-09-29 16:51:52 |
... That is, he meets the president's empathy standard. President Obama described... |
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2009-09-29 16:52:10 |
... Somebody who's got the heart, the empathy to recognize what it's like to be a... |
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2009-09-29 16:52:14 |
... It's like to be a teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor... |
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2009-09-29 16:53:26 |
... And the depth and breadth of one's empathy." close quote. Now, we can only take... |
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2009-09-29 16:53:52 |
... Judicial impartiality. Whatever the empathy standard is, it's not law. And we have... |
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2009-09-29 16:54:24 |
... To benefits from the judge's so call empathy, there's a litigant who loses. Not on... |
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2009-09-29 16:57:02 |
... And respect for established law. Empathy is a personal characteristic which may... |
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2009-09-29 16:57:34 |
... I'm not sure how you can have any empathy of a personal characteristic, maybe i... |
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2009-09-29 16:58:52 |
... May have made some statements about empathy that are not perfect, but my judgment... |