Senate Debate on Empathy

Overview Notes

Short Empathy Narrative
Full Empathy Narrative
 

2005-09-22 - Obama on Judge Roberts
2006-01-26 - Obama on Judge Alito

2007-07-17 - Obama @ Planned Parenthood
2009-05-01 - Obama on Souter retirement

2008-01-22 - Christopher Smith

2008-11-20 - Bob Corker


2009-05-03 - Meet The Press - Arlen Specter - Empathy

2009-05-05 - Mitch McConnell

2009-05-06 - Ted Poe

2009-05-13 - Roland Burris (no video)

2009-06-09 - Jon Kyl

2009-06-17 - Jeff Sessions
2009-06-17 - Patrick Leahy
2009-06-17 - Richard Durbin

2009-06-18 - Whitehouse ACS panel

2009-06-23 - Gibbs
2009-06-23 - Jeff Sessions
2009-06-23 - Mitch McConnell
2009-06-23 - Bob Menendez

2009-06-24 - Orrin Hatch
2009-06-24 - Sam Brownback

2009-07-07 - Jeff Sessions


2009-07-13 - Mitch McConnell

2009-07-15 - Charles Grassley

2009-07-13 to 16 - Sotomayor Hearings Overview

 
   2009-07-13 - Day 1 - pt1 Senators Opening
        2009-07-13 - Jeff Sessions
        2009-07-13 - Chuck Grassley
        2009-07-13 - Jon Kyl
        2009-07-13 - Sheldon Whitehouse
        2009-07-13 - Tom Coburn
        2009-07-13 - Dick Durbin

   2009-07-13 - Day 1 - pt2 Sotomayor Opening
  
   2009-07-14 - Day 2 - All
        2009-07-14 - Patrick Leahy
       
2009-07-14 - Jeff Sessions
       
2009-07-14 - Russ Feingold
        2009-07-14 - Jon Kyl
       
2009-07-14 - Chuck Schumer
       
2009-07-14 - Sheldon Whitehouse

   2009-07-15 - Day 3- All
    
2009-07-15 - Charles Grassley
       2009-07-15 - Arlen Specter
       2009-07-15 - Orrin Hatch


   2009-07-16 - Day 4- All
       2009-07-16 - Jon Kyl
       2009-07-16 - Mr. Henderson
       2009-07-16 - Lt. Vagus
       Mr. McDaniel  x
       Dick Durbin  
       Tim Jeffries  x
       Neomi Rao x
 

2009-07-20 - Mitch McConnell - Empathy Standard

    2009-07-28 - Day 5 - Com. Approves Sotomayor
       2009-07-28 - Orin Hatch
      
2009-07-28 - Chuck Grassley
      
2009-07-28 - Lindsey Graham
      
2009-07-28 - John Cornyn
       2009-07-28 - Dick Durbin
       2009-07-28 - Sheldon Whitehouse
      
2009-07-28 - Arlen Specter

Senate Floor Debate
2009-07-30 - Lamar Alexander - Sotomayor rejected
2009-08-03 - Tom Udall

2009-08-04 - Senate Floor Debate
2009-08-04 - Mitch McConnell
2009-08-04 - Patrick Leahy

2009-08-04 - Jeff Sessions

2009-08-04 - Sheldon Whitehouse

2009-08-04 - Orin Hatch

2009-08-04 - James Inhofe

2009-08-04 - Sherrod Brown

2009-08-04 - Charles Grassley
2009-08-04 - Bob Menendez

2009-08-05 - Senate Floor Debate
2009-08-05 - Patrick Leahy
2009-08-05 - Amy Klobuchar
2009-08-05 - John Cornyn
2009-08-05 - Pat Roberts
2009-08-05 - Charles Schumer
2009-08-05 - Roger Wicker
2009-08-05 - Jon Kyl

2009-08-06 - Senate Floor Debate
2009-08-06 - Dick Durbin
2009-08-06 - George Voinovich
2009-08-06 - Barbara Boxer
2009-08-06 - Charles Grassley
2009-08-06 - Jeff Sessions
2009-08-06 - Patrick Leahy
2009-08-06 - Mitch McConnell

 

2009-09-17 - Jeff Sessions on Hamilton
2009-09-29 - Jeff Sessions on Viken
2009-10-27 - Jeff Sessions on Judge Irene Cornelia Berger
2009-11-09 - Jeff Sessions on Judge Honeywell
2009-11-12 - Jeff Sessions at 2009 Federalist Society


2010

2010-02-09 - Jeff Sessions on Judge Greenaway
2010-04-16 - Goodwin Liu
2010-05-07 - Jeff Sessions - Americans look for Supreme Court

Nomination of Elena Kagan
2010-05-10 - Obama Nomination of Elena Kagan
2010-05-10 - Sen. Barasso - Ready to Question Kagan
2010-05-11 - Sen. Jeff Sessions Interview
2010-05-11 - Sen. Jon Kyl Interview
2010-05-14 - Justice Anthony Kennedy
2010-05-16 - Sessions - Kagan Road to High Court
2010-05-16 - Mitch McConnell - Kagan


2011
2011-05-19 - Orrin Hatch on Goodwin Liu


Other

1999 - 2009 - Other Empathy
1991-07-01 - George HW Bush Touted Thomas' "Great Empathy"
2006-01-06 - Samuel Alito's Decisions Guided By Ethnicity, Empathy
2009-08-12 - Tribute to Phyllis Schlafly2009-10-02 - Justice Sotomayor and Supreme Court


Committee Questionnaire
District/Circuit Court nominees each
asked about empathy.

Abdul Kallon

Albert Diaz

Andre Davis

Audrey Fleissig

Barbara Milano Keenan

Benita Pearson

Beverly Baldwin Martin

Brian Jackson

Catherine Eagles

Charlene Honeywell

Christina Reiss

David Hamilton

Denny Chin

Denzil Marshall

Dolly Gee

Edward Chen

Elizabeth Foote

Gary Feinerman

Gerard Lynch

Gloria Navarro

Goodwin Liu

Jacqueline Nguyen

James Wynn

Jane Magnus-Stinson

Jane Stranch
Jeffery Viken

John Gibney

Jon DeGuilio

Joseph Greenaway

Josephine Tucker

Kimberly Mueller

Leonard Stark

Lucy Koh

Marc Treadwel

Mark Goldsmith

Michelle Childs

Nancy Freudenthal

Raymond Lohier

Richard Gergel

Richard Seeborg

Robert Neil Chatigny

Rogeriee Thompson

Rosanna Peterson

Sharon Coleman

Tanya Pratt

Thomas Vanaskie

Timothy Black

William Martinez

Others
Judgepedia.org-Empathy
  Shirley Abrahamson
  Irene Berger
  Clarence Thomas